Change of power in Hungary

Magyar wants to meet with Zelensky: "New chapter"

Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar wants to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, he wrote on Facebook.

He suggested holding the meeting in Berehove, a Ukrainian town near the Hungarian border that is the center of Ukraine's Hungarian-speaking minority.

Relations between the countries deteriorated in 2017 when Ukraine introduced Ukrainian as the main language of education in schools - a move that Hungary said disadvantaged the tens of thousands of ethnic Hungarians in the Transcarpathian region, writes AFP.

Magyar wants Ukraine to lift "the legal restrictions that have existed for over a decade" and restore the "cultural, linguistic, administrative and educational rights" of the Hungarian minority.

"If we can resolve these issues, we can definitely open a new chapter in Ukrainian-Hungarian bilateral relations," he wrote.

Orbán offered to resign as party leader – rejected

Viktor Orbán has offered to resign as party leader of Fidesz. This is what his party colleague Erik Bánki told Hungarian media after Tuesday's party meeting.

The party leadership said no and postponed the issue to the party congress on June 13, when the party leadership will be voted on.

Orbán has signaled that he is ready to remain in office if he continues to receive confidence, and several party leaders have said that Fidesz will probably collapse without him as party leader. Orbán has led the party since 1993, with the exception of the years 2000 to 2003.