Hungary's incoming PM Péter Magyar demands 'Orbán's puppets' leave office

After 16 years, will require a deeep cleaning.

I'd bet it will take years to find and fire all the Russian moles in various ministries and intelligence agencies.

Magyar indicated that Szijjártó would be investigated at least, this is from 23rd of march... "A report in the Washington Post last week said Hungary’s foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó, routinely updated his Russian counterpart with the details of confidential EU meetings. Magyar wrote on X on Monday: “If confirmed, this would amount to treason, which carries a potential life sentence. A future Tisza government will immediately investigate the matter.”

The first indication will be how many of them flee to Russia.

Like trump here in US. Orban’s ouster is a blow for all right wing groups across Europe, and most notably for Maga trump and Vance. It’s a wonderful day for democracy in America!

Investigation via catapult 

Probably not. It is a political slippery slope to jail or prosecute your political opponent. What will happen is that no one would want to evict their political power leading to absolute civil war. So even if it is obvious, the next time someone gets voted out of power, they will treat it like a life prison sentence and go the killing/brutality route to maintain power. Or they will partner with Russia to seek sanctuary and be a Russian puppet like Orban to protect themselves. So as much as this puppet should be in jail, it can set lead to a new status quo that if you leave power, you are jailed.

Orban still has almost 40% support - as sad as it is, for criminal charges it would have to be low enough it doesn't destroy current government. You would have gigantic government toppling protests. They will probably charge some of his less popular coworkers though. 

Upvote so that new government sees this as a reminder. They probably did not think about it.

Here in Finland we have plenty of people named Suomi/Suominen/Suomalainen (Finland and two variations of Finnish) and also Virolainen, Venäläinen, Ruotsalainen - Estonian, Russian, Swedish, as well as several family names referring to Finnish areas. ... also we know the famous wine Magyar from Hungary.

Heck, make Johnny English the PM too

There was an Australian cabinet minister named Joe Hockey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hockey If he were Canadian, he would have won his elections by default.

Just that it's actually a reasonably common name while "Canadian" isn't.

Hungary has a tradition of doing this ... they named Croats "Horvat" and Poles "Lengyel" etc. so many family names just denote where they come from.

With the obvious campaign slogan: "Joe Canada, our home grown native man"

What you want?

Juan Tequila

In Hungarian, the last name goes first. So it would be more like Hungarian Peter.

lmao yes, that's funny

I can’t wait to see their blueprint.

You need some Zelensky puppets in there buddy?

Probably less than a month... followed shortly by the discovery of missing billions.

President has to call the national assembly in 30 days then the president will have another 30 days to ask the party leaders to form a government, so 58 days maximum.

Peter Magyar said latest term is 5th of May but that he hopes with cooperation from the former ruling party, it could be done a bit sooner. That is if I understood correctly what he said.

Magyar is the Hungarian word for "Hungarian."

He promises to steer Hungary back towards democracy

Péter Magyar and his Tisza party is positioning itself as a new center-right government that is sharply pivoting away from the past decade by embracing a pro-EU, and pro-Ukraine platform, which includes unblocking aid for Kyiv and restoring ties with Brussels. They are also focused on dismantling corruption and Russian influence while restoring judicial independence, effectively moving the country back toward a standard European democratic path.

He was part of Orban's party until a year or so ago. The party he left to take leadership over is still right/center-right leaning, but he's promised to at least revert the Constitutional changes that Orban put into power to rig things for him for the last decade and a half, and to institute new Constitutional limits on heads-of-state to prevent a future Orban. Whether or not he follows through now that he has power remains to be seen. He's pro-EU, anti-Russian influence in Hungary, but he's still a nationalist and bills himself as pro-Hungarian traditionalism. Both he and his party have been dead silent on social issues/civil rights issues, or even most issues beyond wanting to strengthen the powers of Hungary's Constitution, reduce Russian influence in Hungary, and tie Hungary closer to the EU so it can receive aid/funds from the EU to bolster Hungary's economy again. I have my fingers crossed, but I'm always skeptical when conservative/right-leaning politicians split from their party and begin using extremely populist rhetoric out of the blue. Still! He's not Orban, and we can hope, yeah?

 I'm genuinely enthusiastic about him being elected as a better interlocutor to Europe, but whilst the tin says the first, his choice of words make me cautious. Or maybe I'm just old.