Far-right leaders from the Patriots for Europe group are increasingly raising concerns over the latest political developments in Hungary, warning of a decline in democracy under Prime Minister Péter Magyar – but the European Commission remains supportive of Magyar's government, which it considers pro-European.
Magyar, who ousted his predecessor Viktor Orbán at April's parliamentary election, has launched a political campaign dubbed "Purgatorium" to dismantle Orbán's political system and remove officials appointed by his predecessor.
Some of the country's most prominent Orbán-era figures are already falling away. Last weekend, President Tamás Sulyok signed a constitutional amendment that ended his own mandate; this week, Prosecutor General Gábor Bálint Nagy resigned, citing growing political pressure.
On Tuesday, Orbán said prosecutors had raided Fidesz's party headquarters and confiscated servers, blocking the opposition party's communications system.
While the raid formed part of a corruption investigation into the misuse of cultural grants for the party's election campaign, Fidesz claimed it was part of a wider effort to eradicate it altogether.
