Hungary’s new prime minister has pledged to revive the country’s economy following the first change of government in 16 years in the Central European nation.<\/p>\n
Peter Magyar was sworn in at the National Assembly in Budapest on Saturday.<\/p>\n
His party Tisza won more than two-thirds of the seats in the parliamentary election in April, ousting longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orban.<\/p>\n
Magyar said in an address to lawmakers that the Hungarian people have given him and his party a mandate to open a new chapter in the country’s history.<\/p>\n
He stressed his intention of rebuilding the economy whose growth has remained sluggish.<\/p>\n
About 80,000 people gathered in front of the National Assembly for a ceremony to celebrate his swearing-in.<\/p>\n
The prime minister expressed gratitude for their support in the election.<\/p>\n
A university student said he had been waiting for this moment. He also said Magyar has a great responsibility, and supporters believe in him.<\/p>\n
During Orban’s 16 years as leader, the European Union suspended funding to Hungary, citing corruption and a lack of judicial independence.<\/p>\n
Magyar is believed to try to mend ties with the EU and request the resignation of the country’s president who was appointed by the Orban government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hungary’s new prime minister has pledged to revive the country’s economy following the first change of government in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[72,259,191,189,8,262,188,190,173,261,265,266,267,264,258,263,268,260,257],"class_list":{"0":"post-19892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-biz","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-economy-of-japan","12":"tag-japan","13":"tag-japan-broadcasting-corporation","14":"tag-japans-economy","15":"tag-japanese-economy","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nhk","18":"tag-nhk-world","19":"tag-nhk-world-premium","20":"tag-nhk-world-tv","21":"tag-nhkworld","22":"tag-nuclear","23":"tag-public-broadcaster","24":"tag-radio-japan","25":"tag-tech","26":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}