Hungary’s new PM apologises to those wronged under Orbán

**“I will serve as long as my service is useful; I will do this to the best of my ability, for as long as I can, and as long as the Hungarian nation needs me to do it.”** Magyar stressed that he is no different than anyone else in the country; and the only reason why he is in the prime minister’s seat now is because millions of Hungarians wanted change. **This is an honor, a moral obligation**, but also a wonderful feeling, he said: “Working for this country is uplifting. I will endeavour to live up to the example set by predecessors such as Lajos Batthyány, Imre Nagy, and József Antall”. **“We will once again learn to think of ourselves as one nation,”** **Fidesz politicians will eventually have to face the consequences of their actions**. Péter Magyar said that after coming to terms with the past—and “only after that”—justice must be served. “**Justice is one of the fundamental prerequisites for democratic reconstruction,**” which means that Hungary cannot build a new future on the foundation of covered-up crimes. Hungary will not longer by a country without consequences. He called on public officials to resign by the end of the day, or by May 31 at the latest, in the interest of Hungary’s democratic renewal. **“President Tamás Sulyok should be first,”** Magyar declared, before spending several minutes listing the times the President, whose office represents all Hungarians, chose to remain silent since taking office, while the camera showed Sulyok’s face as he squirmed in this utterly humiliating situation. **Among others, he reproached Sulyok for not speaking out when Viktor Orbán called Hungarian citizens “bugs,” for failing to stand up for victims of child abuse, and for not opposing the previous government’s unconstitutional decisions and legal arbitrariness. “Mr. President, it is time for you to leave.”** **Magyar also apologized to the victims who were abused at the Bicske children’s home and Szőlő Street, and to all those who have suffered under the Hungarian child protection system, because the Hungarian state had failed to offer them an apology.** He spoke about how in recent years stigmatization and hatred have torn families apart; how “children grew up surrounded by constant political hate campaigns, and how the elderly lived in fear of the future and of the prospect of war. By cynically playing into artificially generated fear, politics has poisoned the collective psyche of an entire nation. The Hungarian state must never again do this to its own citizens. On April 12, this era came to an end once and for all”, **“Hungarians have decided to teach the world that freedom is not a noun, but a verb**—an uplifting deed that nothing can stand in the way of. For this, we owe gratitude to each and every Hungarian”. He stressed that the most important task in the coming years will be for Hungarians to once again learn to see themselves as one community. He asked everyone to reach out to those who are now disappointed, afraid, and experiencing this period as a loss. **He said: do not seek to humiliate them; instead, listen to them and talk to them, because this is their country too, and their contribution is also needed to rebuild it.** "A country’s true strength isn’t measured by the number of seats the winning party holds in parliament, but by how it treats its most vulnerable.”

As a hungarian i'm happy that Ruff Bálint is in his cabinet He used to be a political advisor, then lead a very popular weekly talkshow about politics. In that show he made it very clear that he's personally pissed about what orbán did to the country's psyche I want to think appointing him was no coincidence

Americans better be writing down in a notebook.

I like this guy.

The dancing politician clip is fun. Lets see that energy funneled into righting the wrongs of Orban's administration.

Just don't become the new Orban. Orban was open minded too and willing to do good when he first got the power. The he slowly and slowly became more toxic and corrupt...

He was elected by people wanting the right thing.

Welcome back Hungary, we missed you in EU 🥰🤗

Big "if true" energy, but an apology is just words. Let’s see the policy shifts before we start acting like the damage is actually undone

Who is this guy? Is he really different or a status quo stooge?

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