Péter Magyar sworn-in as Hungary's new prime minister after landslide April election victory

Published connected 09/05/2026 - 17:08 GMT+2•Updated 17:12

Péter Magyar has been sworn-in arsenic Hungary's caller premier minister, aft taking his oath successful parliament connected Saturday morning, bringing an extremity to 16-years of Viktor Orbán rule, cementing a landslide April predetermination victory.

Magyar's Tisza enactment secured 141 seats successful the 199-seat National Assembly, an outright majority. The outgoing Fidesz has 44, portion the KDNP, who formerly allied with Orbán, person 8 and Mi Hazánk 6.

Magyar station was confirmed connected Saturday successful the inaugural league of the National Assembly. He was appointed with 140 votes successful favour, 54 against and 1 abstention.

After taking the oath, Péter Magyar said that radical had fixed his Tisza enactment a mandate to pb a caller section successful the country's history, to alteration not lone the authorities but the strategy arsenic well.

“I volition not regularisation implicit Hungary, I volition service my homeland,” helium stressed. “However, determination tin beryllium nary caller opening without reconciliation, and nary reconciliation without justice,” helium added.

“In the location of Hungarian democracy, I telephone connected those holders of precocious nationalist bureau who were the servants of the erstwhile strategy to resign today, oregon by 31 May astatine the latest,” said the caller PM, adding that “President Tamás Sulyok should beryllium the archetypal to bash so.”

Breaking 36-years of contented and protocols pertaining to authorities change, erstwhile Prime Minister Viktor Orbán did not present a code astatine the inaugural parliamentary session, nor was helium adjacent contiguous for the proceedings.

Ágnes Forsthoffer, Vice President of the Tisza Party, was elected the caller Speaker of parliament, and she was speedy to denote her archetypal bid of business, reinstalling the EU emblem connected the Hungarian parliament building, aft astir 12 years of absence.

The Tisza Party is holding an all-day lawsuit called a “system-changing people’s festival”, to people the joyous occasion. By the aboriginal day Kossuth Square, successful beforehand of the parliament premises, was already full.

“By electing Péter Magyar premier curate already astatine the inaugural sitting, the caller National Assembly has breached with tradition. Previously, respective days would walk betwixt the 2 events. This volition shorten the transition, enabling the caller authorities to beryllium formed much quickly. And by tying the inaugural sitting to a fashionable celebration, they person turned a protocol lawsuit into a shared assemblage experience," said Rita Kónya, Euronews' analogous successful Budapest.