Hungary's National Assembly voted on July 28 to establish the Nemzeti Vagyonvisszaszerzési és Vagyonvédelmi Hivatal, a National Asset Recovery and Asset Protection Office with broad powers to claw back public assets, the Hungarian independent outlet Telex reported; the vote is a central Tisza Party campaign promise; in a separate vote parliament elected Pál Sonnevend as a Constitutional Court judge with 138 votes for and 6 against, with Fidesz boycotting both votes

Chief Prosecutor Gábor Bálint Nagy submitted his resignation on July 23 warning that 'politics is swallowing justice,' as Prime Minister Péter Magyar's government simultaneously ordered a full audit of Hungary's State Audit Office, filed criminal complaints over Orbán-era Eximbank loans, and capped state company executive pay at the PM's own salary level

Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced on July 20 that he would ask Judit Polgar, the greatest female chess player of all time, to serve as Hungary's interim president during the drafting of a new constitution; the announcement came one day after former President Tamás Sulyok signed a constitutional amendment ending his own term; Polgar had not yet responded as of reporting

Hungary's National Assembly approved a constitutional amendment on July 13 to remove President Tamás Sulyok from office; Prime Minister Péter Magyar's coalition used its two-thirds supermajority to pass the 17th amendment to Hungary's Basic Law; Sulyok now has five days to sign his own dismissal or face impeachment proceedings

Hungary's prime minister from 1998 to 2002 and 2010 to 2026, Orbán built Europe's defining model of illiberal democracy before losing power in Hungary's April 2026 landslide election.

An 11 April landslide hands the EU a new Budapest, unblocking Ukraine aid while refusing to fast-track Kyiv's accession