new poll<\/a> by Median, an independent pollster that predicted the election result accurately. Seventy-two percent of Hungarians now think Mr. Magyar is suitable to lead the country.<\/p>\nEndre Hann, Median\u2019s founder and managing director, said belief in Mr. Magyar helped overturn the rule of Mr. Orban, as \u201csociety gradually came to realize that Fidesz could be defeated.\u201d<\/p>\n
This belief persisted after the election. According to the same poll, nearly two-thirds of Hungarians think the country is headed in the right direction, twice the level recorded in November. But the Tisza government will have to \u201ctake many concrete steps to meet the high expectations,\u201d Mr. Hann added.<\/p>\n
Mr. Magyar will have to tread carefully. He won by pitching himself as a conservative to win over disaffected Fidesz voters. Liberal and left-wing voters disliked many of his views on immigration and L.G.B.T.Q. issues but supported him because he offered the first viable alternative to Mr. Orban in years.<\/p>\n
Some expectations for a real change of direction for Hungary, both within the country and abroad, may prove overblown.<\/p>\n
Mr. Magyar pledged to maintain border security, even in the face of E.U. asylum policies, while preserving good relations with the bloc. He said he would not veto the $106 billion loan package for Ukraine, though he plans to opt out of the financing.<\/p>\n
Progressives hope he will abide by a recent ruling by the European Court of Justice and repeal a 2021 \u201cchild protection law\u201d that connected homosexuality with pedophilia and restricted gay rights.<\/p>\n
But doing so would risk alienating his right-wing voters, playing into Fidesz narratives that he is a closet liberal and a puppet of the European Union.<\/p>\n
Civil organizations, for now, simply hope that Mr. Magyar will see them as partners, said Emese Pasztor, a lawyer and project manager at Budapest-based human rights organization Tasz. She said Tisza\u2019s election victory felt like a \u201cbreath of fresh air.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms. Pasztor hoped the new administration would be more receptive to criticism and willing to engage in discussion. \u201cIf governance would be transparent, and the public had better access to information,\u201d that alone would be a success, she added.<\/p>\n
Budapest\u2019s mayor, Gergely Karacsony, who was vilified by the Fidesz government, is hoping that the relationship between the capital and the state will improve.<\/p>\n
For years, the mayor accused Mr. Orban\u2019s government, which drew most of its support from outside the relatively liberal capital, of withholding funding and weaponizing the tax system against the city.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve lost the last six years locked in a constant financial and political battle with the government,\u201d Mr. Karacsony said in an interview. A lot of the city\u2019s development and investment in infrastructure, which said were in very poor condition, had been put on hold.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to honor 16 years of struggle and usher in a new era in Hungary,\u201d Mr. Karacsony said. \u201cWe want to remember the sins of the Orban government to make sure that this kind of exclusionary, hate-driven political culture never takes root again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Magyar, the former opposition leader, prepared to be sworn in as prime minister of Hungary on Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[27802,28799,28058,27821,13624,307,37389,939,18608,37391,422,2783,37390,13618,14660,3591,11947,6938,13621,25396,74,13623,17647,25397,350],"class_list":{"0":"post-63347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-viktor-orban","8":"tag-appointments-and-executive-changes","9":"tag-budapest-hungary","10":"tag-corruption-institutional","11":"tag-democracy-theory-and-philosophy","12":"tag-donald-j","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european-court-of-justice","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-fidesz-party","17":"tag-gergely","18":"tag-hungary","19":"tag-international-relations","20":"tag-karacsony","21":"tag-legislatures-and-parliaments","22":"tag-magyar","23":"tag-orban","24":"tag-peter","25":"tag-politics-and-government","26":"tag-polls-and-public-opinion","27":"tag-tisza-hungarian-political-party","28":"tag-trump","29":"tag-united-states-international-relations","30":"tag-united-states-politics-and-government","31":"tag-viktor","32":"tag-viktor-orban"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}