UPDATE: Péter Magyar officially comes to power, with the promise of regime change
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It’s official: Péter Magyar became the new Prime Minister of Hungary this Saturday, offering his country “the hope of new momentum”, according to the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. The pro-European conservative, who emerged on the Hungarian political scene barely two years ago and put an end to the sixteen years of unchallenged power of the nationalist Viktor Orbán, was elected by 140 votes for, 54 against and one abstention in a Parliament where his Tisza party holds 141 seats out of 199. A consecration which took place in the absence of Viktor Orbán, who renounced his post of MP. “I will not reign over Hungary, but I will serve my country,” Péter Magyar immediately declared, denouncing the corruption of the Orban system which has deprived Hungarians of “the roads, hospitals, schools” that they need. He announced the creation of an independent office in charge of “uncovering the abuses committed” over the last twenty years and recovering the embezzled sums. “A breath of fresh air” for many Hungarians Outside, tens of thousands of people gathered under the sun to attend the investiture ceremony, broadcast on large screens installed around the Parliament, whose immense neo-Gothic silhouette dominates the Danube. “I think people have finally taken a breath of fresh air,” said Reka, a 31-year-old call center employee, who hopes that the country will now go “in the right direction”. Many challenges await the new Prime Minister, starting with the stagnation of the economy and the deterioration of public services, which require structural reforms. But Hungarians also need to see “short-term” results, underlines Andrea Virag, director of strategy at the liberal think tank Republikon. Towards peaceful relations with the European Union Aware that the state of grace may not last, Péter Magyar is in a hurry to adopt the necessary reforms to “repatriate” European funds frozen due to past attacks on the rule of law. Especially since Hungary faces a deadline in August, where it could lose 10 billion euros from the post-Covid recovery plan. Last week, he went to Brussels, in the hope of obtaining by the end of May the release of this money on which he is counting to keep his electoral promises. While openly welcoming the arrival of Péter Magyar, who promised to renew peaceful relations with the EU, Brussels could however wait for the adoption of concrete reforms before responding positively. “On this Europe Day, our hearts are in Budapest,” said Ursula von der Leyen in a publication on The new President of the Parliament Agnes Forsthoffer, elected almost unanimously, ordered, as a first measure, to raise the European flag on the Parliament, after twelve years of absence, to “symbolically” mark the return of her country to Europe.
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