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Hungary·Democracy

Hungary lifts immunity of prime minister and two Orbán-era ministers for criminal probes

Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 06:12 · 1 min read

Hungary's parliament has voted overwhelmingly to strip Prime Minister Péter Magyar and two former ministers from Viktor Orbán's government of their parliamentary immunity, opening the door to separate criminal investigations against all three. Magyar, whose Tisza party ended Orbán's 16-year rule in a landslide election victory last year, faces a theft allegation over an incident at a Budapest nightclub in which prosecutors say he threw another man's phone into the Danube River — a case Magyar has dismissed as political persecution and asked to face in order to clear his name. The two former ministers — Balázs Hankó, accused of embezzling over €40 million in public funds, and Miklós Seszták, suspected of accepting more than $37 million in bribes tied to state contracts — face the first major corruption probes to target senior figures from the Orbán era, whose party boycotted Monday's parliamentary session.

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Al Jazeera English — Hungary lifts immunity of Prime Minister Magyar, two Orban-era ministers ↗︎
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