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By JUSTIN SPIKE
Associated Press
Associated Press
Published: May 9, 2026 astatine 4:42 AM
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's incoming premier minister, Péter Magyar, arrived Saturday astatine the Parliament gathering to beryllium sworn into office, ending Viktor Orbán 's autocratic 16-year rule.
Magyar’s center-right Tisza enactment defeated Orbán’s nationalist-populist Fidesz successful a stunning stroke past month, gaining much votes and seats successful Parliament than immoderate different enactment successful Hungary’s post-Communist history.
The triumph volition let Tisza to rotation backmost galore of the policies that gave Orbán a estimation among galore of his critics arsenic a far-right authoritarian, clamp down connected alleged corruption and alteration governmental dynamics wrong the European Union, wherever the erstwhile premier curate had upended the bloc by often vetoing cardinal decisions.
A Parliament without Orbán
On Saturday, Magyar entered the sprawling neo-Gothic parliament gathering alongside 140 of his enactment representatives, controlling 141 seats successful Hungary's 199-seat parliament. Orbán’s Fidesz-KDNP conjugation volition power 52 seats, down from 135, portion the far-right Mi Hazánk (Our Homeland) enactment volition clasp six seats.
When the inaugural league is held aboriginal Saturday, Orbán volition not articulation successful for the archetypal clip since Hungary’s archetypal post-Communist Parliament was formed successful 1990. After his loss, Orbán said helium would absorption connected rebuilding his nationalist-populist governmental community.
Magyar, a 45-year-old lawyer who founded Tisza successful 2024 aft years arsenic an insider successful Orbán’s party, has vowed to extremity authoritative corruption, which helium argues has robbed Hungarians of economical opportunity.
The caller premier curate has called connected Hungarians to be an all-day “regime-change” solemnisation extracurricular Parliament to people his inauguration and the extremity of the Orbán era.
After helium takes his oath astatine astir 3 p.m. section time, Magyar is acceptable to code the assemblage outside.
Repairing relations with the EU
Magyar has promised to repair his country’s ties with the EU, which Orbán had pushed to the breaking point, and to reconstruct Hungary’s spot among Western democracies, whose lasting had been called into question arsenic Orbán drifted ever person to Russia.
Unlocking astir 17 cardinal euros ($20 billion) of EU funds for Hungary frozen during Orbán’s clip successful bureau implicit rule-of-law and corruption concerns is among the incoming premier minister’s apical priorities. The wealth is sorely needed to assistance jump-start Hungary’s struggling economy, which has stagnated for the past 4 years.
In a motion of that commitment, Tisza officials accidental they volition erstwhile again alert the EU emblem connected the Parliament building’s facade aft Orbán’s authorities removed it successful 2014.
A enactment to observe the extremity of Orbán's rule
Budapest’s wide mayor, Gergely Karácsony, posted an unfastened invitation to a enactment by the Danube River aboriginal Saturday to observe Orbán’s autumn and the enactment of the caller government.
Karácsony wrote successful a societal media station the enactment was to explicit gratitude to Hungarians who person spent years speaking retired against Orbán’s system: “Teachers fired, civilians and journalists humiliated, tiny churches torn apart.”
“We tin yet permission this epoch down america — but first, fto america retrieve the mundane heroes and explicit our gratitude with a farewell to the system,” helium wrote connected Facebook.
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