{"id":742749,"date":"2026-04-21T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/742749\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:00:37","slug":"magyar-names-first-ministers-in-new-hungarian-government-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/742749\/","title":{"rendered":"Magyar names first ministers in new Hungarian government \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zsolt Heged\u0171s, a former surgeon now best known for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DXG9Ie-ghSe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dance moves<\/a>, will serve as health minister, while former armed forces chief Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi will take defense. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Gajdos, the director of an <a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/nyiregyhaza-zoo-named-best-zoo-in-europe-for-third-time-in-its-category\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">award-winning zoo<\/a>, will serve as environment minister, and former farmer Szabolcs B\u00f3na will oversee agriculture and food economy. <\/p>\n<p>The remaining portfolios \u2014 bringing the total to 16 \u2014 are expected to include interior, justice, transport and investments, education, social affairs, a prime minister\u2019s office, rural development, culture and digital technology, with more nominations expected in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The restructuring marks a deliberate shift away from <a href=\"https:\/\/bti-project.org\/en\/reports\/country-report\/HUN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Orb\u00e1n-era centralization<\/a> of power.<\/p>\n<p> Magyar is carving out separate ministries for education, health and social policy, restoring a standalone justice ministry, and limiting the interior ministry strictly to law enforcement. He is also splitting finance from the broader economy and introducing dedicated digital and environmental portfolios.<\/p>\n<p>Magyar also struck a combative tone on the transition, warning that &#8220;a lot of skeletons&#8221; could emerge from the outgoing government\u2019s financial closet and pledging to make public the state of Hungary\u2019s books once his cabinet takes office.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary\u2019s new parliament is expected to convene around May 9\u201310, paving the way for the government to be formed within days.<\/p>\n<p>J\u00falia Vadler and Joe Stanley-Smith contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zsolt Heged\u0171s, a former surgeon now best known for his dance moves, will serve as health minister, while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":742750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[2906,262,102001,5495,746,271406,29064,2850,50,22197,158,6187,16815,103],"class_list":["post-742749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-agriculture","tag-defense","tag-elections-in-europe","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-hungarian-elections-2026","tag-hungarian-politics","tag-hungary","tag-news","tag-peter-magyar","tag-technology","tag-transport","tag-viktor-orban","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116441882851826762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}