Irony: Conservatives Won in Hungary

Conservatives were down in the dumps about Viktor Orbán’s loss in the parliamentary election in Hungary. 

As Beege wrote last night, perhaps that sentiment was a bit premature, based more on the European Union’s desire to replace Orbán than any real reason to worry about his successor, Péter Magyar. Magyar, after all, was not some socialist opponent of Orbán, but until recently his right-hand man. 

He defected from Orbán over what appear to be legitimate concerns about massive corruption in the Orbán regime, rather than over policy differences with the political platform of Orbán’s party, Fidesz.

The European Union may have made noises about corruption in Hungary, but its real gripe was over Hungary’s conservative social and immigration policies, and on those matters, Magyar, if anything, seems ready to double down on giving the European Union the finger. 

🇭🇺 🧵HUGE! Magyar Péter RESPONDS to the 27 Demands of the European Union!

“Only 4 of those 27 conditions will be fulfilled!”

•Strengthening anti-corruption measures
•Restoring independence to investigative authorities/ judicial system.
•Restoring press freedom (government… pic.twitter.com/y7LmzTXwTX

— Based Hungary 🇭🇺 (@HungaryBased) April 15, 2026

🇭🇺 🧵HUGE! Magyar Péter RESPONDS to the 27 Demands of the European Union! 

“Only 4 of those 27 conditions will be fulfilled!”

•Strengthening anti-corruption measures

•Restoring independence to investigative authorities/ judicial system.

•Restoring press freedom (government funds will stop)

•Restoring freedom in the academic environment.

Everything Else will be Protected!

Magyar Péter communicates the fact, that the policies of no income tax for mothers and pensions will NOT be changed. He also states he doesn’t plan to increase income taxes.

Magyar wants to keep the southern border fence, and REJECTS the EU Migration and Asylum Pact.

He states his priority is to reinstate the Druzhba pipeline’s operation as its the key to Hungary’s economy.

He also OUTLINES Ukraine, will NOT enter the EU unless they come to an agreement of suitable rights for ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia, including restoring the linguistic, educational, and cultural rights.

Magyar states any money sent from the EU to Ukraine, Hungary will opt out of. He also plans to conduct a referendum on Ukraine’s accession into the EU.

The rights, programs and support for ethnic Hungarians is also to be continued and NOT abandoned.

He also states he will DEFEND Hungary’s interests and is NOT a federalist. 

Overall, it is increasingly looking like not a lot will change. Alot of Orbán’s international allies have also congratulated him already.

I’m increasingly getting the idea that the EU and the NGOs have no idea who they placed into power. They made a huge compromise with Hungary’s patriots just to win the elections in Hungary.

I’m also seeing a tendency that his anti-Orbán but mainly anti-Fidesz position is largely just cinema. To show to the West and the leftists that voted him that there will be a ‘change’ in the country. 

The leftists also made a huge compromise because they don’t constitute any political party in the Hungarian Parliament anymore.

The actual leadership around Magyar is dominated by centre-right, technocratic, and ex-fidesz pragmatists — not hardcore leftists or green activists. 

The parliamentary group of the Tisza party is mixed but centre-right dominated. It is not evenly split left/right. The left/green element is visible but secondary. They were more present in the voter base over actual elected MPs.

The faction is built around Magyar’s centre-right inner circle. The left-liberal baggage exists but is mostly in the voter coalition and lower ranks.

Overall, I would say this is good news. Although I would be still cautious especially of their status in the EPP, but it may be true that we just elected one patriot with another. Let’s also NOT forget Fidesz and Orbán were in the EPP until 2021. 

One is for certain, Hungary will NO longer block or veto Ukraine’s weapons or money from the EU, and we will be in this regard be “re-accepted by NATO”.

About the only thing the EU has to be happy about is that Hungary will no longer impede the EU’s Russia policy, which I have to say is not exactly the most important issue for US conservatives, nor, I assume, for Hungary’s. I certainly have no love for Putin, although I think Ukraine would be better off finding a way to end the war, which is likely to be a stalemate for years, otherwise, even with Ukraine’s revitalized military strategy and increasing drone capabilities. 

Péter Magyar, like Orbán, has invited Netanyahu to Hungary—signaling he would not enforce the International Criminal Court warrant against him.

Hungary, as an International Criminal Court member, is obligated to arrest Netanyahu if he enters the country. https://t.co/BXzGWNQe99

— Clash Report (@clashreport) April 15, 2026

Magyar is no transnationalist, which is the important part. He has no intention of opening Hungary’s borders to Islamists, whatever the EU wants him to do. He appears fine with accepting European fines in exchange for protecting Hungarian citizens, and remains a thorn in Ursula von der Leyen’s side. 

🚨BREAKING NEWS: NEW HUNGARIAN PM PÉTER MAGYAR PROMISES TO KEEP ORBÁN’S STRICT ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION POLICY — “WE WILL MAINTAIN AND REINFORCE THE BORDER FENCE” 🔥🇭🇺

In his first major statement after winning the elections, Péter Magyar (Tisza party) made it crystal clear:… pic.twitter.com/3gR8OhYkaS

— Slavic Networks (@SlavicNetworks) April 14, 2026

🚨BREAKING NEWS: NEW HUNGARIAN PM PÉTER MAGYAR PROMISES TO KEEP ORBÁN’S STRICT ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION POLICY — “WE WILL MAINTAIN AND REINFORCE THE BORDER FENCE” 🔥🇭🇺

In his first major statement after winning the elections, Péter Magyar (Tisza party) made it crystal clear: Hungary will continue the same hard line on immigration. He told the EU Commission and European leaders that Hungary will reject any migration pact or relocation mechanism, keep the reinforced border fence (and even fix the holes that “probably weren’t accidental”), and will NOT release 2,200 convicted human traffickers like Orbán did. He said: “We want to honestly protect our country and Europe from illegal immigration. Legal ways exist and must be respected.”

In most things that matter, it seems that Magyar is a less corrupt and compromised Orbán, which to me seems a good thing. Corruption is corrosive and economically damaging, and deep ties to Russia are not exactly the path to lasting economic growth. 

🇭🇺HUGE! Magyar Péter DECLARES a STOP on all Guest Workers by June 1st, 2026.

“Its a system that can only be fixed by going radically in the complete opposite direction.” pic.twitter.com/4Tsk5qf3n4

— Based Hungary 🇭🇺 (@HungaryBased) April 16, 2026

It’s still possible that Magyar will turn out to be worse than he now appears; he is, after all, a politician. But in a lot of ways, it looks like Orbán has a worthy successor, without all the baggage. And Magyar will have done it by using the resources of the European Union to fund his rise to power. 

How cool is that? We can hope, can’t we?

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