Following their stunning overwhelming victory over Viktor Orbán last Sunday, Páv Magyar and his triumphant Tisza party have not spent any time in getting ready for the handover of power in Hungary. They secured 141 seats in the 199-seat National Assembly with 52% of the vote, ending his party’s 16 years of uninterrupted power. The number of seats in Orbán’s Fidesz has dropped from 135 to 52. Votes cast overseas and retrial in hotly contested constituencies will be included in the final count on Saturday.
President Tamás Sulyok has promised Magyar that the new parliament will be formed the week of May 4. The new government can then be chosen by Parliament. Additionally, he had contentious interviews with public service radio and television, which for the past two years have either ignored him or vilified him. He has pledged to enact legislation to halt their news programs until unbiased editors can be hired.
Equipped with a purported super-majority of over two-thirds of the parliamentary seats, he also intends to retrospectively restrict the number of terms a prime minister may hold office to two. Five have previously been served by Viktor Orbán. If that is successful, Magyar might prevent Orbán from coming back. Orbán didn’t speak out about Sunday’s loss until late on Thursday, when he did so in an interview on the Patrióta YouTube channel.The defeated leader of Hungary declared, “This is the end of an era.” “We must bear this defeat with dignity.”
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