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Hungary's Magyar hoping to form new government in early May

dw.com·Alex Berry·about 2 months ago
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After his sweeping electoral victory on Sunday, Hungary's soon-to-be prime minister, Peter Magyar, met with the Hungarian president on Wednesday. Following the meeting with President Tamas Sulyok, Magyar said Hungary's new parliament would likely meet on May 6 or 7. "The ​President has informed me that he will ​ask me at the inaugural session of ⁠the ​new parliament ​to be Prime Minister ​and form a government, as the leader ​of ⁠the party that got the ⁠most votes," Magyar said. His center-right TISZA party brought an end to 16 years of FIDESZ government under outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orban . Magyar goes after Orban-aligned president, state-run media Sunday's election winner has already made clear that he wants to move quickly to roll back the policies that exemplified what Orban called Hungary's "illiberal" democracy. Magyar said he had called on President Solyuk, an Orban ally, to voluntarily step down.…

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