Szijjártó’s exit from politics is being spun as a success.
Orbán chooses football over Fidesz.
The ‘Sulyok operation’ could trigger constitutional chaos.
Poll of the week: Magyar’s popularity soars while Orbán’s unpopularity reaches record highs, with the possibility of a Fidesz split.
There is no summer lull in Hungarian politics in 2026. Dramatic announcements and sweeping political changes have followed one another almost daily. The dismantling of the Orbán system is gathering pace, but events have also shown that even a government with a two-thirds parliamentary majority cannot simply remove every official and loyalist appointed under the previous administration.
