Hungary’s new PM Peter Magyar poses for photo with country’s president - then takes to X to slate him and demand his resignation

Alice Tomlinson
Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:49:30 +0000

Hungary’s new Prime Minister posed for a photo with the country’s President and then took to social media to slate him and demand his resignation.

Péter Magyar, whose party won Hungary’s parliamentary election on April 10, uploaded a photo with Tamás Sulyok, the country’s President to social media and captioned the image with a damning statement towards the Head of State, saying he is “unfit” and “unworthy” of representing the nation.

He wrote on X, alongside an image of him with President Sulyok: “I have arrived at the Sándor Palace to meet the President of Hungary.

“@DrTamasSulyok is unworthy of representing the unity of the Hungarian nation. He is unfit to serve as the guardian of legality. He is not fit to serve as a moral authority or a role model.

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“Following the formation of the new government, Tamás Sulyok must leave office immediately.”

Mr Sulyok has been Hungary’s President since 2024 and represents the Fidesz–KDNP party.

The Hungarian President is elected indirectly via Parliament and generally serves a five-year term.

A predominantly ceremonial role, the President is the official Head of State, Commander of the Armed Forces and can propose laws as well as referendums.

The incoming Hungarian Prime Minister is leader of the opposing Tisza party - he was formerly a member of Fidesz, but renounced his membership over a presidential pardon scandal in 2024.

His party won the Hungarian parliamentary election on Friday by a two-thirds legislative majority, bringing Viktor Orbán's 16-year rule in the country to an end.

After the Tisza party’s win, Mr Magyar took little time to call for the Orbán-supporting President to step-down from his position.

Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, he said: “"I repeated to him that, in my eyes and in the eyes of the Hungarian people, he is unworthy of embodying the unity of the Hungarian nation, incapable of ensuring respect for the law”

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He continued to say his Government would introduce a law to remove the President and “all the puppets nominated to top posts by the Orbán system”.

Other posts he set his sights on included Hungary’s chief prosecutor and the head of the constitutional court, reports Le Monde.

The landslide victory for the Tisza party will allow the new Prime Minister to overturn Mr Orbán's policies, vowing to make Hungary a “European country again”.

He also intends to re-establish Hungary’s international relationships, after the former leader was known to cosy up to Putin.

In February, Mr Orbán utilised his veto to block an EU financial agreement to give Ukraine a €90billion handout to add to their warchest.

Mr Magyar had previously worked in Mr Orbán’s office in 2015.

He came to prominence for criticism over the Katalin Novák presidential pardon scandal in February 2024.

In a covertly made voice recording of his ex-wife Judit Varga, it revealed that the President of Hungary at the time, Katalin Novák, had granted a presidential pardon in April 203 to Endre Kónya, the deputy director of a state-run children's home near Budapest.

Kónya had coerced children into covering up sexual abuse by his superior, János Vásárhelyi, the home's director.

The information resulted in anti-government protests calling for Ms Novák’s resignation, to which she did on February 10, 2024.

President Donald Trump, an ally of Mr Orbán, appeared to swiftly move on from his defeat, telling ABC News he believed the incoming Hungarian leader would do a "good job”.

He had repeatedly and publicly backed Mr Orbán in the days leading up to the vote, including a direct endorsement just two days before Hungarians went to the polls.

The incoming Hungarian Prime Minister has pledged to halt economic stagnation, reform health care, quash corruption and suspend the country’s state media, which he described as a “propaganda machine”.