Published Apr 15, 2026, 6:49 AM ET · Updated 7 months ago · 1 source

Hungary’s Magyar says new government could take power at beginning of May

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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian opposition leader and election winner Péter Magyar said Wednesday that the country’s president had assured him in a meeting that his new government could take power in the first week of May, an accelerated timeline for the end of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s 16-year reign. Following Magyar and his center-right Tisza party’s landslide victory in Sunday’s election in which it won a two-thirds parliamentary majority, the opposition leader has pushed for the trans