Hungary's new government has proposed a constitutional amendment capping prime ministers at eight years in office, a measure that would permanently bar former leader Viktor Orbán — who served five terms totalling two decades — from reclaiming the role. The draft was submitted by Prime Minister Péter Magyar and his Tisza party (a centre-democratic opposition movement that swept to a landslide election victory last month) just over a week after taking office, and is expected to pass given the party holds a parliamentary supermajority. The amendment also paves the way for dissolving a controversial state surveillance body set up under Orbán and reasserting democratic oversight over dozens of universities and think tanks whose boards were packed with Fidesz loyalists, moves analysts say are central to reversing years of democratic backsliding and unlocking billions in frozen EU funds.