Magyar vows to remove Orban allies after election

Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar said he would dismiss key allies of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, including the president and the head of the Supreme Court, if his party secured a two-thirds majority at the elections, according to Bloomberg.

Speaking at a pre-election rally, he said the aim was to win a constitutional majority that would allow changes to the constitution.

Magyar argued that after 16 years of Orban’s rule, ‘systemic change’ was needed. He criticised the prime minister and his associates, whom he described as a ‘mafia’, and accused them of prioritising political loyalty over their constitutional duties.

He said that if he won, the heads of the Constitutional Court, the State Audit Office, the Competition Authority and the prosecutor general would also lose their posts. He argued that the institutions were failing to act as independent bodies.

At the same time, he stressed that his aim was to restore the rule of law and democratic pluralism.

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