Victory Speech
Péter Magyar
Péter Magyar's victory address on the night of 12 April 2026, after the Tisza party's landslide win ended 16 years of Viktor Orbán and Fidesz rule. Tisza secured a two-thirds supermajority — 138 of 199 seats in the National Assembly — on the highest turnout in Hungarian democratic history. The speech reset Hungary's political relationship with the European Union and ended one of the longest continuous tenures in modern European democratic politics.
Key Quotes
"Tonight, truth prevailed over lies."
"Today, we won because Hungarians didn't ask what their homeland could do for them; they asked what they could do for their homeland."
"Never in the history of democratic Hungary have so many people voted, and no other party has ever received such a big mandate."
"Hungary will once again be a strong ally representing Hungarian interests, because our country's place is in Europe."
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Quick facts
- Speaker
- Péter Magyar
- Year
- 2026
- Category
- political
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