Winning Hungary's election hasn't stopped false claims about Péter Magyar

Published on 23/04/2026 - 11:03 GMT+2

It's not adjacent been 2 weeks since Péter Magyar won Hungary's elections, and the incoming premier curate is inactive facing a deluge of misinformation.

Misleading claims circulating connected X person targeted Magyar's migration policies and suggested the premier minister-elect endorsed his rival and outgoing premier minister, Viktor Orbán, arsenic president of the European Commission oregon the European Council.

One post, which amassed thousands of likes, claims that 1 of Magyar's policies aft helium won Hungary's parliamentary elections connected 12 April is to guarantee "All Ukrainians and different immigrants from extracurricular the EU volition suffer their enactment permits starting June."

It goes connected to accidental that each non-EU impermanent workers successful Hungary volition beryllium forced to permission the state aft this date.

But this isn't accurate.

Magyar focused connected the contented of non-EU impermanent workers successful Hungary successful a New Year's Eve code delivered connected 31 December 2025.

In the speech, helium said that, from 1 June 2026, his Tizsa enactment would "allow nary non-Hungarian impermanent workers extracurricular of the European Union," successful enactment with his party's strict stance against migration.

This policy, however, does not people Ukrainians and different non-EU migrants that are already wrong Hungary earlier this date.

Moreover, Magyar, dissimilar what the posts claim, did not repetition this argumentation program successful a wide-ranging property league fixed aft his victory, though helium did interaction connected tightening restrictions for overseas companies that employment precise fewer Hungarian workers.

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Another misleading assertion astir Magyar has racked up thousands of views combined connected X, Facebook and TikTok.

The posts connect a video clip of Magyar asking the question, "What if Viktor Orbán was the European Commission oregon Council's President?"

It has been dispersed online with the caption that Magyar has pushed for Orbán to instrumentality connected the relation of European Commission president, replacing Ursula von der Leyen, who has held the presumption since 2019.

However, these posts are misleading. This interrogation is really from 2024, erstwhile Magyar gave an interrogation to autarkic Hungarian outlet, Telex.

In it, helium does so inquire the question astir Orbán becoming president of 1 of the European institutions, but successful a purely hypothetical sense.

He past goes connected to admit Orbán arsenic a beardown governmental figure, telling the interviewer that "he has a vision," earlier saying that "most radical successful Hungary astir apt don't hold with it."

Unlike what the posts claim, it is not an endorsement of Orbán to tally for the European Commission oregon the European Council presidency.

It's not wide who is down these posts astir Magyar.

Although determination is nary grounds that they are connected to pro-Kremlin disinformation networks, researchers accidental Magyar was targeted successful the run-up to the Hungarian predetermination by a Russian disinformation run known arsenic Storm-1516.

This run utilized fabricated reports from morganatic sources to dispersed mendacious claims astir Magyar.