US EditionHungary's Outgoing PM Orban Offers to Quit as Fidesz Party Chief, Local Media Say
A June 13 congress will decide whether to keep Viktor Orban after Fidesz lost the April 12 election and he said the party needs complete renewal.
- On Tuesday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban offered his resignation as leader of the right-wing Fidesz party, though a party congress in June will decide whether to accept it.
- The move follows the April 12 election, where the centre-right Tisza party, led by Peter Magyar, defeated the veteran nationalist, ending his 16-year rule and triggering calls for change within Fidesz.
- After taking "full responsibility" for the defeat on April 16, Orban announced Saturday he would "return" his parliamentary seat to Fidesz to assist in the necessary "complete renewal."
- Fidesz lawmaker Erik Banki told state news agency MTI that party leadership wants Orban to stay on, with a final vote scheduled for the June 13 congress.
- The leader, who counts President Donald Trump as an ally, stated Saturday he is "ready for the task" should the June congress support his continued leadership.
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After the Fall: Orban’s System Unravels as Fidesz Faces Existential Crisis
With support collapsing, its leadership in limbo and no clear path back to power, Hungary’s once-invincible former ruling party confronts the possibility of long-term decline and irrelevance. There remain the faithful, however.
Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has offered to resign as leader of his right-wing Fidesz party, but the party's presidency has not accepted it and will decide on the matter at a congress called for June 13.
Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán offered to resign from the post of Fidesz president today, and it will be decided at the party assembly, which is scheduled for June, whether it will be accepted.
In Hungary, despite his devastating defeat at the legislative elections on 12 April, Prime Minister Viktor Orban did not intend to throw away the sponge. The sovereignist leader, who will soon be 63 years old, wants to remain in the arena. He will continue to hold the reins of his party, Fidesz. This is what he reaffirmed this Tuesday 28 April at the meeting of the party's governing council.
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