- Péter Magyar announced that President Tamás Sulyok will entrust him with forming the government.
- The constituent meeting of the new Hungarian parliament is expected in early May.
- Péter Magyar asked President Sulyok to resign after appointing a government.
The candidate of the winning Tisza party for the post of Hungarian Prime Minister, Péter Magyar, announced on Wednesday that President Tamás Sulyok will entrust him with the formation of a new government. According to him, the new parliament could have a constituent meeting as early as the beginning of May, TASR writes, according to the reports of the agencies MTI, AFP and Reuters.
The new parliament could meet for the first time on May 4, 6 or 7, Magyar said, according to the MTI agency, after meeting with the Hungarian president. On Wednesday, Sulyok will welcome Viktor Orbán, the leader of the defeated Fidesz, in Sándor’s Palace, the seat of the president’s office.
According to the head of the Tisza party, he agreed with the president that the change of government should take place quickly. Magyar asked Sulyok to resign voluntarily after the appointment of a new government, otherwise Tisza would use his mandate and change the constitution.
Before the meeting, Magyar told reporters that Sulyok is “unable to embody the unity of the Hungarian nation, unworthy to be the guardian of the rule of law in Hungary, and unable to serve as a moral compass or role model for the Hungarian people.”
Magyar expects that acting Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will withdraw his veto and unblock the EU loan to Ukraine after the resumption of transit of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline in the amount of 90 billion euros. TASR informs about it based on the report of the TASS agency.
Kyiv has promised that the pipeline will be repaired by the end of April, while Orbán will remain in office until the beginning of May, Magyar explained in an interview with the radio station Kossuth rádio. Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic decided in December 2025 not to support the 90 billion EU loan for Ukraine, but they will not stand in the way of this initiative. But Orbán eventually blocked the payment of the loan after Ukraine stopped the transit of Russian oil to Hungary.
“I think that when the operation of the Druzhba pipeline resumes, Viktor Orbán will cancel his procedural veto,” Magyar said. He has already declared that he sees no reason to reconsider the Hungarian decision from December 2025 on the EU loan to Ukraine. This means that the new Hungarian government will continue the policy of its predecessors, refrain from participating in the initiative, but will not prevent other countries from supporting Kyiv.
Magyar’s Tisza party won Sunday’s parliamentary elections, securing a constitutional majority in the process. After 16 years, the era of the government of the Fidesz party of the incumbent Prime Minister Orbán will thus come to an end in Hungary.
