Overview
- Péter Magyar will take the oath as prime minister at parliament's opening session Saturday, which completes Hungary's transfer of power after Viktor Orbán’s long rule.
- He has named a 16-ministry lineup that restores separate health and education ministries and puts private-sector figures in key roles to drive what he casts as practical problem-solving.
- The roster includes banker András Kármán for finance, former Shell vice president István Kapitány for economy and energy, and Vodafone executive Anita Orbán as foreign minister.
- He is pushing to unlock frozen EU funds by courting partners in Brussels and Rome and by pledging to enforce European Court of Justice rulings and raise transparency in how public money is awarded.
- At home, police froze accounts and seized funds in probes of firms linked to Orbán’s network, while critics questioned the justice-minister pick Márton Melléthei-Barna, a close ally who married Magyar’s sister in 2025.