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16th April, 2026
Sulyok will consider Magyar request to step down
President Tamas Sulyok said yesterday morning that he would consider Peter Magyar’s arguments after the prime minister-elect told him directly that he should leave office.
Magyar told reporters outside the Sandor Palace that “Sulyok is not fit to represent the unity of the Hungarian nation. Sulyok is not fit to safeguard the law in Hungary. Sulyok is not fit to become a moral standard, or a role model for Hungarians.”
Sulyok said he will formally recommend Peter Magyar for the post of prime minister.
In leaving, Magyar said Sulyok had shown him around the building. They were outside on the terrace when they saw Prime Minister Viktor Orban outside his office where a cabinet meeting had just ended.
Magyar waved, but did not get a response.
Sulyok said the inaugural session of Parliament could take place on May 4, but realistically it may be a few days later. He will convene the MPs as soon as possible as it is in the national interest that that happen as fast as possible.
Magyar told him face to face that he considers him unfit for his office and asked him to preserve the remnants of the Hungarian rule of law and democracy by leaving the office voluntarily.
If he does not do that, then MPs will remove him by amending the Basic Law.
Sulyok said enigmatically that he would also like to preserve the rule of law and will consider Magyar’s arguments. (hvg.hu; telex.hu; atv.hu; portfolio.hu)
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16th April, 2026
Magyar and Sulyok consider direct presidential elections
President Tamas Sulyok and prime minister-elect Peter Magyar discussed the possibility of amending the Basic Law to enhance the head of state’s powers slightly and to make the position subject to direct elections by the populace, rather than by Parliament, as is the current practice, the Tisza party leader told Telex yesterday.
“As a future prime minister, I would be glad if we could limit the sphere of authority of the prime minister with checks and balances so that what happened in the past 16 years should not happen again”, he said.
The powers granted to the Hungarian head of state are among the weakest powers in Europe, he added.
Magyar said he wants to hold social and professional consultations about whether the next president should be elected according to the present or a new system. (telex.hu)
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16th April, 2026
Toroczkai ready to co-operate with Tisza and Fidesz
Our Homeland can work with the Tisza and Fidesz parties, party president Laszlo Toroczkai said on M1 current affairs state TV channel Wednesday morning.
He said his party will put forward a proposal on transforming the electoral system as the current one ensures excessive power for the winner, he said.
He expressed hope that communication will exist between the Tisza Party, Fidesz and Our Homeland. (magyarnemzet.hu)
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16th April, 2026
Orban maintains post-election silence
After President Tamas Sulyok met separately with the leaders of the parliamentary parties, Peter Magyar, Laszlo Toroczkai and Zsolt Semjen of the Christian Democratic Party reported on the meeting on their social media pages and also to journalists, but Viktor Orban did not.
His Facebook page has not been updated with any posts since the outgoing prime minister announced in a short video on Monday that he would continue working for Fidesz.
His cover photo has not been changed and the image encouraging people to vote is still there. (444.hu)
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16th April, 2026
Magyar vows to suspend state media
Tisza Party leader Peter Magyar reaffirmed in appearances on state media Wednesday morning that one of his cabinet’s first steps will be to suspend the service of “this propaganda media”, until it is made capable of doing its job of informing the public.
Magyar first gave a live interview to Kossuth Radio and then to M1 TV.
Before the questions were asked, he said “let me begin by saying it is peculiar that the last time I was on state media was more than 18 months ago. The unprecedented authorisation of more than 3,300,000 people was needed for them to be willing to provide space to the leader of the strongest Hungarian party.”
State media he said, has caused quite astonishing damage to Hungarians’ minds, and “created fear in our children and grandchildren”.
He added “I have no wish for revenge, not a personal revenge, even though they attacked me, my family, and those close to me.
On other topics, Magyar said the Tisza Party will diversify Hungary’s energy sources and crude oil will be obtained from as many directions as possible, among them the Druzhba oil pipeline.
He said Hungary will obtain gas from Russia, as he expressed hope that by the end of April the Druzhba oil pipeline will restart but there will be plenty of time to replenish the reserves.
Declaring that “we will take back what has been squandered” he said the government will reclaim the 10% of MOL shares that were given to the Mathias Corvinus Collegium.
Subsidies for household energy will be kept and will be extended to firewood, said Magyar.
He also said that his government will take unspecified action against “the prime minister’s straw man and wallet, Lorinc Meszaros.” This man, he said “who cannot read or write, and cannot really talk, has become five times as rich in ten years as the British royal family in 400 years, while hundreds of thousands of Hungarian children live in deep poverty.” (index.hu; atv.hu; blikk.hu; klubradio.hu; 168.hu; economx.hu)
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16th April, 2026
Petition launched for Hadhazy
A petition has been launched on the website of the NGO aHang in favour of giving some form of anti-corruption post to outgoing independent MP Akos Hadhazy, HVG reports.
The organiser of the initiative said Hadhazy has uncovered many corruption cases, such as the Orban family estate in Hatvanpuszta, the export of the armed forces BTR combat vehicles to Serbia and the matter of an unsuccessfully digitalised property registry system.
Hadhazy finished third in the Zuglo constituency at the elections behind his Tisza and Fidesz rivals, after which he announced that he will return to his Szekszard veterinary practice in May.
He announced that the Central Veterinarian hospital in Szekszard will be at the disposal of animal keepers and their pets with an expanded night and weekend on-call system from next month. (nepszava.hu; hvg.hu)
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