Hungary's Prime Minister-designate Péter Magyar has said that the country's president assured him the inaugural session of the new parliament could be scheduled as early as 6 or 7 May, setting up a swift end to Viktor Orbán's 16-year hold on power. Magyar made the announcement on Wednesday following a private consultation with President Tamás Sulyok at the presidential palace in Budapest.

Magyar and his centre-right Tisza party won a landslide victory in Sunday's election, securing a two-thirds supermajority in parliament — a result that grants the incoming government not just a mandate to govern, but the power to amend Hungary's constitution and reverse many of Orbán's long-standing policies. Under Hungarian law, the inaugural session of the new parliament, at which a prime minister must be elected, is required to take place no later than 12 May. Magyar has pushed for the transition to happen as quickly as possible. Sulyok, who was himself elected to the presidency by Orbán's parliamentary majority, confirmed he would nominate Magyar as the next prime minister.

"The president thinks, and I think everyone thinks, that it's in the interests of the Hungarian nation that after such an overwhelming mandate from the voters, a change in government and a change of regime should happen as quickly as possible," Magyar told reporters. He has also called on Orbán's outgoing administration to act as a caretaker government and refrain from making decisions that could undermine Hungary's interests or complicate the incoming government's work.

Magyar outlined sweeping plans for restructuring the state, including the creation of separate ministries for health, environmental protection and education — none of which existed as standalone bodies under Orbán. In his first appearance on Hungary's state public broadcaster in nearly two years, Magyar announced that the channel's news programming would be suspended once his government takes office, describing it as a "factory of lies" that had functioned as a propaganda arm of Orbán's Fidesz party, until editorial independence could be established.

Magyar also told the president he should resign after the new government is formed, saying Sulyok was "unworthy of embodying the unity of the Hungarian nation." Sulyok said he would "consider" the request. Magyar warned that if the president does not step down voluntarily, the new government would use its constitutional majority to remove him and others he described as figures installed by the Orbán system. The transition, if it proceeds on the proposed timeline, would mark one of the most significant political shifts in Hungary in more than a decade.