Péter Magyar announced that President Tamás Sulyok will entrust him with forming a new government. The constitutive meeting of the parliament could be held already at the beginning of May.
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.
Change of government
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 was “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.”
The constitutional majority of the Tisza party
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.
