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Prime Minister of Hungary P\u00e9ter Magyar\u2019s campaign against Viktor Orb\u00e1n-era holdovers has reached the presidency. On July 13, Hungary\u2019s parliament <\/span><\/span>voted<\/span> to approve a constitutional amendment removing P<\/span>resident Tam\u00e1s Sulyok, a 2024 appointee of Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Fidesz party. Magyar has repeatedly denounced Sulyok as a \u201cpuppet\u201d of the former prime minister.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The amendment <\/span>does more<\/span> than remove Sulyok. It also sets a 12-year limit for members of parliament and requires Constitutional Court judges to retire at 70, measures that would push several key Fidesz-aligned figures out of public office.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The right-hook to Sulyok and Fidesz, which Orb\u00e1n still leads after his electoral defeat to Magyar in April 2026, is not coming from some left-wing revolutionary. <\/span>Magyar<\/span> is a center-right former member of Fidesz who left the party in 2024. Magyar left after a particularly <\/span>egregious scandal<\/span> in which Katalin Nov\u00e1k, then president and an Orb\u00e1n appointee, resigned over her decision to pardon a deputy director of a state-run children\u2019s home who had been convicted of covering up sexual abuse at the facility.\u00a0(RELATED: Hungary\u2019s Democratic Renewal)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Within months, Magyar had risen to the top of the Tisza Party, turning it into a prominent political force <\/span>centered on a conservative agenda<\/span> \u2014 such as traditional family values and national pride \u2014 tied to opposition to the corruption and patronage that helped define Orb\u00e1n\u2019s 16 years in power.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n may have lost office, but his tenure as prime minister <\/span>left behind<\/span> legal structures, institutional tripwires, and a political class of his own making after years of Fidesz\u2019s dominance. Public media, courts, and constitutional rules were <\/span>all altered<\/span> under Fidesz\u2019s decades-long rule of Hungary to keep the party and Orb\u00e1n in power. When <\/span>Tisza won<\/span> nearly 30 percent of the vote in Hungary\u2019s 2024 European Parliament election, it marked the highest percentage of votes of any non-Fidesz party since 2006.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After the April 2026 parliamentary elections, Tisza now <\/span>controls<\/span><\/span> 141 out of parliament\u2019s 199 seats, a two-thirds supermajority. Magyar now has both the votes and the will to turn his anti-corr<\/span>uption mandate into policy through any constitutional or legislative levers of power at his disposal.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The great sin of Orb\u00e1n\u2019s tenure was that he trained Hungarian politics to treat the constitution as a partisan cudgel to bludgeon one\u2019s opponents. Magyar now risks swinging that cudgel in reverse. Removing Sulyok, forcing out judges by age limit, and blocking long-serving \u2014 and thus Fidesz-aligned \u2014 MPs from continued office may all have clean anti-corruption justifications. Yet they also continue to operate under the idea that institutional offices can just be rewritten when the new majority finds their occupants intolerable.\u00a0(RELATED: <\/strong><\/span>Hungary\u2019s Right After Orb\u00e1n<\/strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Magyar has a fresh public mandate to confront corruption and to overturn many of the measures of Orb\u00e1n\u2019s regime. But how he goes about it <\/span>does <\/span><\/i>matter. Magyar will not restore respect for the democratic order if he swings the constitution like a mallet at every obstacle and roadblock.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If Magyar\u2019s cleanup becomes indistinguishable from a purge, he and Tisza will have accepted one of the base assumptions of the Orb\u00e1n regime: that institutions matter only insofar as they serve the ruling majority. Using Orb\u00e1n\u2019s own means to remove Orb\u00e1n\u2019s men will create nothing more than a new regime still stuck in the habits of the old.<\/span><\/p>\n

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