Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar (front 2ndR) and other lawmakers vote on an amendment to the constitution by introducing term-limits for prime ministers to a maximum of eight years in office, in the main hall of the Parliament building in Budapest, on June 15, 2026. Photo: Attila Kisbenedek / AFP / Lehtikuva
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Hungary’s parliament has approved a constitutional amendment that limits prime ministers to a maximum of eight years in office, closing the door on any return to power by former leader Viktor Orbán after two decades in the country’s highest political office.
The measure passed on Monday with support from the governing Tisza Party, led by Prime Minister Péter Magyar, whose landslide election victory in April ended Orbán’s 16-year run as head of government and handed the new administration a two-thirds parliamentary majority.
The amendment states that anyone who has already served as prime minister for at least eight years since the democratic transition of 1990 cannot be elected to the post again.
