Hungary formally installed Péter Magyar as prime minister on Saturday, marking the country's first change in leadership in 16 years and ending the Viktor Orbán era, the Hill reports. Magyar's center-right Tisza party swept last month's election and secured a two-thirds majority in parliament, overcoming late support for Orbán from American allies including President Trump and Vice President JD Vance. "I'm not standing here because I'm different than anyone else in the country," Magyar told lawmakers in his address. "I stand here because millions of Hungarians decided that they want change."
He added, "And this trust that we have received is both a weight of honor and a moral obligation, but also a wonderful feeling." All 199 members of parliament were also sworn in during the session, the first since 1990 in which Orbán was not present. Tisza now holds 141 seats, while Orbán's Fidesz-KDNP alliance has 52, and the far-right Mi Hazánk party controls six. Magyar has pledged to rebuild democratic institutions that many say were weakened under Orbán and to improve relations with the European Union, strained in part by Orbán's closeness to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The EU flag was raised Saturday on the parliament building for the first time since 2014, local media reported.
After taking the oath of office, Magyar addressed a crowd of tens of thousands in the square outside the parliament building, per the AP. "You have taught the country and the world that it is the most ordinary, flesh-and-blood people that can defeat the most vicious tyranny," he said as supporters roared. He invited Hungarians to a daylong "system-changing national festival" in Budapest's Kossuth Square to mark the transition, saying they'd "write history together" and "step through the gate of the regime change as one."
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