After ending Viktor Orbán’s 16-year grip on power in Hungary with a historic electoral landslide, incoming prime minister Péter Magyar has moved quickly to lock in a speedy handover of government, meeting with President Tamás Sulyok this week to formalize his transition to office. Sunday’s general election delivered a staggering rebuke of Orbán’s long-ruling Fidesz party, with Magyar’s newly formed Tisza Party securing a two-thirds supermajority in parliament — a result that upends more than a decade of Hungarian politics.
