Hungary’s Incoming Leader Moves to Shake Up Orban-Built System

Hungary’s incoming leader Peter Magyar moved fast to assert dominance over the state institutions that outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orban crafted over his 16 years in power, directing salvos against state media and the president appointed by his predecessor.

In a tense radio interview on Wednesday morning — his first in more than a year-and-a-half — Magyar castigated the interviewer for representing an organization that, he said, had spread fear and despair in the population, telling him that the news operation would be shuttered and relaunched as a true public service broadcaster.