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Peter Magyar sworn in as Hungary's prime minister, marking the official end of Viktor Orban's 16-year era
2026-05-09 15:00:59 / BOTA
Pro-European center-right leader Peter Magyar has been sworn in as Hungary's prime minister, marking the official end of Viktor Orban's 16 years in power.
Saturday's ceremony, during which Magyar had invited people to join him in "writing Hungarian history" together and "passing through the gate of regime change," comes a month after his opposition Tisza party won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections.
The result caused jubilation in Budapest and beyond, as Orban and his populist and nationalist movement had long been held up by the global far right as an example to be emulated.
Early Saturday, people began to pour into the square outside the country's neo-Gothic parliament to watch the inaugural session broadcast on giant screens. Every time the Hungarian scene came on, the crowd cheered, while some booed lawmakers from Fidesz and the far-right Our Fatherland party.
The landslide victory, which gave Tisza 141 seats in the 199-seat parliament, was a shock result for Magyar, who until recently had been a little-known former member of Fidesz’s elite. He emerged in public in early 2024 after turning against the party, exposing the inner workings of a system he described as rotten and accusing officials of expanding their power and wealth at the expense of ordinary Hungarians.
The 45-year-old has vowed to use his large majority to dismantle the systems built by Orban, who had filled the country's judiciary, media and state with loyalists. Beyond the country's borders, he has also vowed to rebuild Hungary's strained relationship with the EU.
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