{"id":27293,"date":"2026-04-26T03:29:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/orban-steps-down-from-hungarian-parliament\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T03:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:29:58","slug":"orban-steps-down-from-hungarian-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/orban-steps-down-from-hungarian-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Orban steps down from Hungarian parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The outgoing prime minister has vowed to focus on reorganizing the \u201cpatriotic movement\u201d following his landslide election defeat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said he will not take his seat in the new parliament after Fidesz\u2019s election defeat, announcing that he will focus on reorganizing the country\u2019s <em>\u201cpatriotic movement.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Orban said in a video statement on Saturday that the parliamentary mandate he won as head of the Fidesz-KDNP list <em>\u201cis in fact the parliamentary mandate of Fidesz,\u201d<\/em> and that he has therefore decided to <em>\u201cgive it back.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI am now needed not in parliament, but in the reorganization of the patriotic movement,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes less than two weeks after Orban\u2019s long-dominant Fidesz party was crushed by Peter Magyar\u2019s Tisza party, which won 141 of the 199 seats in Hungary\u2019s April 12 parliamentary election.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Keep calm and continue. We will renew and protect our patriotic community. \ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddfa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/swrswGKlAR\">pic.twitter.com\/swrswGKlAR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Orb\u00e1n Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PM_ViktorOrban\/status\/2048075843277090952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Orban said Fidesz\u2019s parliamentary faction would be <em>\u201cradically transformed\u201d<\/em> and that Gergely Gulyas would lead the new group when it forms on Monday. He also said the party would hold a national assembly next week and bring forward its <em>\u201crenewal congress\u201d<\/em> to June.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <imgsrc=\"\" alt=\"Rainbow flags displayed on the City Hall in Budapest, Hungary, on June 28, 2025.\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/638988-hungary-lgbtq-tv-channel\/\">Hungary to get first LGBTQ TV channel \u2013 media<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite stepping away from parliament, Orban made it clear that he intends to remain at the top of the party, saying the leadership proposed that he continue as Fidesz president and that he is ready to do so if the congress renews confidence in him.<\/p>\n<p>Orban struck a tone of defiance rather than retreat, telling supporters that <em>\u201cthis camp has remained Hungary\u2019s most united and cohesive political community.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The election loss marked the sharpest reversal of Orban\u2019s career and is expected to reshape Hungary\u2019s relations with the EU and US, as well as Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <imgsrc=\"\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO:  Oil storage tanks at an oil refinery in Szazhalombatta, Hungary.\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/638920-hungary-ukraine-druzhba-oil\/\">Ukraine resumes oil flow via Druzhba pipeline \u2013 Hungary<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Orban had frozen the disbursement of Ukrainian funding in retaliation for the halting of oil supplies via the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline in January. He called it a politically motivated ploy aimed at supporting Magyar\u2019s party.<\/p>\n<p>Just weeks after the election, Kiev restarted the flow of Russian oil through the supposedly damaged pipeline. Budapest swiftly lifted its veto, and the EU formally approved \u20ac90 billion ($105 billion) in emergency funding for Ukraine for 2026-27 and adopted its 20th package of sanctions on Russia earlier this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outgoing prime minister has vowed to focus on reorganizing the \u201cpatriotic movement\u201d following his landslide election defeat Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said he will not take his seat in the new parliament after Fidesz\u2019s election defeat, announcing that he will focus on reorganizing the country\u2019s \u201cpatriotic movement.\u201d Orban said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rt-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - 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