Magyar Nemzet stops calling Peter Magyar a bug after court order
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Updated · The New York Times · May 9
Magyar Nemzet stops calling Peter Magyar a bug after court order
4 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 9
The paper sent a letter to Hungary's incoming prime minister before he takes office on Saturday, pledging not to depict him as an insect in print or online.
The move follows Peter Magyar's sweeping 12 April election victory, which ended Viktor Orban's 16-year rule and has begun shifting loyalties across Hungary's pro-Fidesz media and patronage networks.
Magyar says his win should bring a complete regime change, but dismantling entrenched allies in business, courts, regulators, prosecutors and news outlets is likely to test that ambition.
Can Hungary's new leader dismantle a 16-year patronage network without just replacing it with his own?
After 16 years in power, how will Viktor Orbán's entrenched loyalists resist the new government's purge?