Prime Minister Péter Magyar told Parliament on Monday that over the past 16 years Hungarians had turned against Hungarians and “those who took an oath to serve the Hungarian people plundered the country”.
“The previous regime unleashed destruction”
He said the previous regime had unleashed such destruction that it left behind parched land, hospital wards at 40°C, trains with flaming wheels, and humiliated teachers, “as if a foreign army had marched through the country”.
While Hungarian families fought for survival, he said, the former political “mafia” leader, Viktor Orbán, had built “a private estate out of our labour and our tax forints”.
Magyar began his speech by thanking Speaker of Parliament Agnes Forsthoffer for assuming the responsibilities of the president of the republic in the interim.
He also thanked the viewers of public news channel M1, noting that after more than a decade, parliamentary proceedings had returned to public media airwaves. “Viewers can now hear the truth firsthand,” he said.
Magyar said the Hungarian people had often experienced devastation from external forces throughout their history. “That is why the betrayal committed by the governments of Viktor Orbán against Hungary over the past decades is unforgivable, because they did not attack us as a foreign army under foreign flags,” he declared.
He said the previous regime had unleashed such destruction that it left behind parched land, hospital wards at 40°C, trains with flaming wheels, and humiliated teachers, “as if a foreign army had marched through the country”. While Hungarian families fought for survival, he said, the former political “mafia” leader, Viktor Orbán, had built “a private estate out of our labour and our tax forints”.
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“Denying responsibility amounts to complicity with the past”
Regarding the responsibility of previous governments, Magyar warned that denying responsibility amounted to complicity with the past, and that delivering justice was the most fundamental moral condition for laying new foundations. “And we will not be complicit,” he declared.
Referring to the former ruling parties, Fidesz and the Christian Democrats, Magyar said that a “solid future” could not be built as long as the “perpetrators” sitting in parliament tried to evade responsibility.
He thanked voters for the mandate they gave him on 12 April and said people had begun turning to each other again, with less hatred and more joy, with families no longer turning away from each other because of partisan politics. “Once again, we are thinking and acting as one united nation for Hungary,” Magyar said.
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The prime minister said that by the spring of 2026, the state had “basically ceased to function” in areas such as railway services, hospitals, water management and schools. “The state gave up its most fundamental tasks: protecting its citizens and their dignity,” he added.
Magyar thanked nurses, teachers, police officers, firefighters, social workers, child protection and water management staff, as well as government officials, who, “despite the Orbán regime’s destructiveness, carried the country on their shoulders for years, trying to ease the consequences of the previous government’s ineptitude”.
Normal state operations “cannot be built on exploitation of public employees”
He pledged to build a state in which those people “do not need to take a daily exam of heroism and self-sacrifice”, arguing that the operations of a normal state “cannot be built on the exploitation of those working in the public sector”.
However, Magyar asked public sector workers for patience, citing the “extremely difficult” budget situation caused by “emptied coffers and amassed debt”. He said the government’s room for manoeuvre was severely restricted. “We have to fight for each forint, and we will do so,” he added.
Magyar said that there was no more uplifting mission than “restoring Hungary from the ruins,” while calling it “infinitely sad how little our predecessors loved the country”. “Anyone who truly loves their nation would never, not for a single moment, allow rural hospitals to fall into disrepair, leave Hungarian soil parched, or view their own people as mere subjects to be exploited while stuffing private estates with wealth stolen from the nation,” he added.
He said the government’s determination to act stemmed from this deep outrage, driving them to pull the country back from the “edge of the abyss” and begin “laying the foundations of a new fortress system”.
Magyar noted that the Tisza government had ended rule by decree and removed “the puppets of the Orbán regime” from their positions. He accused the former ruling parties of planning to lose the election while ensuring they never truly lost power. “We did not come here to assist those who covered up the plundering of the nation in any way, no matter where the political mafia placed them. We have no business with them,” he said.
The prime minister said they had negotiated the “historic” agreement with the European Union in just three weeks, whereas their predecessors “spent years merely blackmailing, vetoing and fighting a pointless battle on the international stage”, while denying Hungarian families access to their own lawfully due funds.
The government fully meets all conditions required to unlock EU funds
By 31 August, the government had fully met all the conditions it had committed to — despite every attempt to prevent it — thanks to thousands of well-prepared diplomats, lawyers and government officials working day and night, who showed the world what Hungarian expertise and professional dedication are capable of when they are finally given a clear goal and genuine appreciation by their government, he said.
Magyar said funds recovered would be used to renew public transport, develop the electricity grid and energy storage, modernise hospitals and primary care, support home renovations, Hungarian SMEs, research, innovation, digitalisation in education, and water management and environmental projects.
He noted the government had cut ministers’ and state secretaries’ pay and party group allowances and was now discussing a radical cut in the prime minister’s salary. Magyar noted that in July, the Hungarian budget had produced a surplus unseen for decades.
A National Asset Recovery and Protection Office has been set up “so that the fate of every stolen forint can be revealed”, he said, adding that the dissolution of 16 public-interest asset management foundations had returned over one trillion forints in public assets to the state. This included 845 billion forints in corporate stakes, 162 billion forints in cash, nearly 90 billion forints in securities and about 88 billion forints in real estate, he said.
Public media “freed” from “party propaganda”
The prime minister said the public media had been freed from “party propaganda” and expressed his satisfaction that parliamentary sessions could again be followed on the M1 news channel.
Magyar said the minimum old-age pension would be raised to 120,000 forints, benefits for people with changed work capacity would be restored, a 100,000-forint school-start allowance would be introduced, the price of firewood would be cut by 5 percent and resources for social firewood frameworks would be doubled, and VAT on prescription drugs scrapped.
He said there had been critical weeks this summer when the country had had to fight for its sheer physical functioning, in reference to problems at the Paks nuclear power plant, and he thanked Hungarian families and businesses for curbing their consumption. He outlined measures taken to protect the plant and said that in the coming weeks, permanent technical protection would be built at Paks.
“For us, this is what a functioning Hungary means,” he said, adding: “We do not shirk responsibility, we do not paralyse ourselves, we do not make excuses, we assess the situation, we decide and we act.”
The government was building a functioning rule-of-law state with clear steps, and would review and transform concessions, Magyar said.
“We will take back what we can”
He stressed that they faced a historic task: laying new, rock-solid institutional foundations. They would start where money had been flowing unchecked into private pockets for years, and in the coming weeks, they would review and likely completely transform the tobacco, casino, waste and motorway concessions, he said, adding that the billions in profits would then enrich the community, the budget and Hungarian taxpayers instead of “private oligarchs”.
“From what the Orbán regime cynically siphoned off over the decades, we will take back what we can, renegotiate where necessary, while filling the state administration with qualified experts,” he said.
Regarding the protection of natural treasures, the prime minister spoke of tightening environmental fines, setting up the National Environmental Inspectorate, submitting a new climate law to parliament and launching a national afforestation programme.
In health care, Magyar highlighted the publication of hospital infection data hidden for years, reducing waiting lists, launching a hospital cooling programme, renewing the financing of GP practices and restoring the dignity of the midwife network.
New budget to begin wage adjustments
He said the new budget to be submitted in mid-October would begin wage adjustments for those in education, social and child protection work, law enforcement and national defence. A stricter child protection law would be adopted and a national drug strategy launched, he added.
The prime minister said they would put a roof over the heads of those guaranteed affordable housing by the housing law, launch the “Your homeland awaits” programme to bring back talent forced abroad, restore freedom in research and develop a modern higher education strategy. A large-scale main and secondary road renovation programme would be launched, railways would be developed and “stolen” local government autonomy would be returned to settlements, he said.
Magyar said order would also be restored in the world of bailiffs, notaries and liquidators.
It is quite hard to fix what that idiot ruined in 16 years
Hungarians turning against Hungarians, My Dear Rádzs, has precious little to do with the former prime minister, but, rather, The Corporate-Globalist Leftwing coalition of the Western Elite; they who insist that you are not born a woman or a man, but, that you are whatever you think you are, at the moment you happen to think it … OR … there is no thing such as race or nation – just passports. Such wild perversions of the truth, and the bought and sold media outlets and social media networks that finance these mass delusions are what account for the huge divisions that are currently plaguing almost every nation in The West. Oh, and lest I forget it : lunatical ideas about Summer being hot and Winter being cold as proof for why our planet can only be saved by sending all our manufacturing to the other side of the world. Oh, and telling out 2nd grade boys that fellating each other is an excellent first step to a rewarding lifestyle. Here is your division.