Hungary’s State Media System to Be Completely Rebuilt Under New Tisza Proposal
- On Friday, the ruling Tisza Party submitted legislation in Budapest to overhaul Hungarian public media, which critics say became a government mouthpiece under former leader Viktor Orban.
- Public media reform was a key campaign pledge of Prime Minister Peter Magyar's Tisza, which ousted Orban in an April election landslide with a constitutional majority enabling rollback of previous reforms.
- The proposed bill establishes an Independent Public Media Committee to oversee operations and finances, while a Public Media Council monitors adherence to a new Public Service Charter.
- Mandates for current public media leaders will terminate under the proposed legislation, with Culture Minister Zoltan Tarr overseeing public media on an interim basis until new leaders are selected through open application.
- Beyond leadership changes, the bill restructures the holding company MTVA by splitting radio and television operations into separate units, while reinstating MTI as a standalone national news agency.
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The Tisza Party, in power in Hungary, submitted a bill on Friday for public media reform, about which critics in the country and abroad claim to have become a government spokesman under the former right-wing leader Viktor Orbán, writes TVPWorld.
Hungary’s state media system to be completely rebuilt under new Tisza proposal
The Tisza Party has submitted a comprehensive bill to Parliament that would fundamentally transform Hungary’s public media system, abolishing the current MTVA-based structure and replacing it with a new institutional framework designed to increase transparency, political balance and public oversight.Continue reading
The representatives of Tisza have submitted their bill to this effect. Existing companies will be transformed into new companies, a new financing model and open tenders will be introduced.
According to Minister Zoltán Tarr, the change of regime must reach the public media, the media authority and the entire public sector operating from public funds.
In Hungary, Tisa's party, led by Prime Minister Peter Madyar, is initiating a bill to reform the public media to make them more independent of the government.
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