Overview
- President Tamás Sulyok tasked Péter Magyar with forming a government on Wednesday following Sunday’s landslide election win for his Tisza party.
- Magyar said parliament could convene May 6–7 and that a new cabinet could take office by mid-May.
- He vowed to halt public media news broadcasts once sworn in and proposed a cross-party oversight body to guarantee opposition access and standards similar to the BBC.
- Magyar urged Sulyok to resign and said his two-thirds majority could enable constitutional changes to cut short the president’s term.
- He said he has begun talks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to meet rule-of-law conditions and seek release of about €16 billion in frozen recovery funds, while Fidesz figures publicly debate the party’s future after Viktor Orbán’s defeat.