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13th April, 2026
Magyar celebrates landslide victory
A little-known political functionary little more than two years ago, Péter Magyar rode a wave of pent-up discontent to be elected prime minister with the support of a two-thirds majority of MPs.
In a stunning victory over the seemingly invincible Fidesz, Magyar’s Tisza party won 51% of the votes to obtain 138 of the 199 seats in Parliament, while Fidesz was reduced to 55 representatives, with 38% support, with 98.8% of all votes processed.
The radical right Our Homeland party may have won six seats, having attracted 6% of all votes.
However, the entry of the party into the House remains highly questionable. It will only become clear after the counting of postal votes and votes from abroad whether the party will be in the next Parliament.
The Democratic Coalition and Two-Tailed Dog parties each received 2%, and will not be represented in the new Parliament.
Following a phone call from Viktor Orbán to congratulate him and admit defeat, Magyar took to the stage on Batthyány tér, where tens of thousands of jubilant supporters awaited him on the Danube riverside.
He began by saying: “The Tisza and Hungary won this election. Not by a little, but by a lot. By a lot. Together we replaced the Orbán regime, liberated Hungary, and took back our homeland.”
“Hungary made history today”, he declared.
With the illuminated Parliament building in the background, Magyar called on the government to act as an executive government from today on and not to make any decisions that would tie the hands of the future government.
Signaling that he wants broad changes quickly, Magyar called on President Tamás Sulyok to ask the winning party to form a government as leader, and then resign from his position.
Those who were the pillars and puppets of the system must leave public life, he declared as he called also for the heads of about a dozen other state bodies or organisations, such as the chief prosecutor and the president of the Constitutional Court.
He also promised to restore the independence of these institutions, the system of checks and balances. He promised that Hungary would once again be a strong ally in the EU and NATO.
Hungary will no longer be a country without consequences, because those who betrayed the country must take responsibility, he added.
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Sources regularly consulted, with abbreviations used in text: Népszabadság (N); Magyar Hírlap (MH); Világgazdaság (VG); Napi Gazdaság (NG); Magyar Nemzet (MN); Népszava (Nsz); Kossuth Rádió news (KR); nightly TV news (TV).
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