Péter Magyar

Péter Magyar is the leader of Hungary's Tisza party and Prime Minister of Hungary since 9 May 2026, when his cabinet was formally sworn in after Tisza won 138 of 199 parliamentary seats on 12 April 2026 with 52.1% of the party-list vote -- a constitutional two-thirds supermajority that ended Viktor Orbán's sixteen-year grip on power. President Tamás Sulyok proposed Magyar as Prime Minister on 15 April; the cabinet formed on 12 May with a foreign minister who pledged Hungary will stop abusing EU veto rights .

Magyar entered politics in early 2023 after his former wife, then-justice minister Judit Varga, was caught on recordings allegedly discussing government corruption. His subsequent public break with Fidesz, despite family ties to the ruling circle, gave the opposition movement unusual credibility. Tisza swept a significant share of the 2024 European Parliament vote, establishing Magyar as the post-Orbán centre of Hungarian politics. He has pledged support for Ukraine, an end to Hungary's blocking vetoes on EU sanctions and the EUR 90 billion Ukraine loan, and rule-of-law reforms, while also committing to a national referendum on Ukraine's EU accession -- preserving a structural ambiguity alongside the otherwise sharp pro-EU pivot.

On the European energy dossier, Magyar's government has described Russian gas dependency as a 'systemic risk' and has no incentive to press the annulment challenge to Regulation (EU) 2026/261 that the Orbán administration lodged in February 2026. The consequence is that Hungary's CJEU challenge to the EU pipeline-gas import ban is effectively abandoned, leaving Slovakia under Robert Fico as the sole live litigant . Magyar's recasting of gas dependency as a security liability rather than a political tool marks the sharpest single break in EU energy policy since Orbán's Hungary began weaponising Russian supply relationships in 2021.