Hungary’s Orban declares ‘resistance’ movement against Magyar government’s ‘tyranny’

Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced on Wednesday that he and his far-right Fidesz party will lead a peaceful “resistance” movement against the new center-right government led by Prime Minister Péter Magyar and his Tisza party. Orbán, who lost the April election after 16 years in office, stated that a recent constitutional amendment passed by Tisza, which removed the Orbán-era president and set a 12-year term limit for MPs, “dismantled the rule of law and eliminated the system of checks and balances.” He asserted that this new system is “not a democracy, it is tyranny,” and that the retroactive term limit would exclude about half of his party’s sitting members from the 2030 elections. Fidesz’s “Declaration of Resistance” vows to use “every peaceful means” to restore democratic rule of law, while Magyar’s administration contends it is dismantling Orbán’s “mafia” and combating corruption. This declaration comes as Fidesz faces a significant drop in support and a probe into suspected embezzlement during Orbán’s rule.