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Politico (16 March 2026)

Max GRIERA

Péter Magyar reckons boardroom veterans will have the experience needed to secure frozen EU funds and release Fidesz’s grip on state bodies. 

Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar is recruiting top business leaders to form his Cabinet if he wins next month’s election — calculating they will bring the skills needed to break Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s ubiquitous grip on state institutions.

Magyar is running about 10 percentage points ahead of Orbán in polls before the April 12 vote, but a victory in the election would not give him an immediate free hand to rule. Magyar would still face a battle to dismantle Orbán’s influence across the judiciary, media and public companies — some of it exercised through complex webs of Orbán-linked shareholdings.

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