Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar took to state-controlled media outlets on Wednesday to tell them they’ll soon be booted off the air in a defiant message against what he called the “propaganda machine.”
Magyar — whose opposition party, Tisza, brought the 16-year rule of Hungary’s autocratic leader Viktor Orbán to an end in a crushing election defeat this week — has been a frequent critic of state media in the country, where backers of Orbán’s Fidesz party are estimated to control a vast majority of outlets overall.
“What has been happening here since 2010 is something that Goebbels or the North Korean leadership would admire — not a single true word being spoken,” said Magyar, per a translation from Euronews, in a tense, in-studio interview with M1.
“This cannot continue.”
Magyar, in a clip from the TV interview shared by X user @JayinKyiv, accused M1 of barring him from appearing on the air and knocked the network for insulting him, his family and his loved ones.
