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Parliament Suspends Péter Magyar’s Immunity
Дата публикации: 28-09-2026 12:33:53
A combative and angry Péter Magyar is stripped of his immunity at today’s parliamentary session. On Monday, the Hungarian Parliament has suspended the immunity of three MPs, among them TISZA party leader and Prime Minister Péter Magyar. The affair may bring Hungarian democracy into further disrepute. On Monday morning, 139 MPs unanimously voted for the […]
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On Monday, the Hungarian Parliament has suspended the immunity of three MPs, among them TISZA party leader and Prime Minister Péter Magyar. The affair may bring Hungarian democracy into further disrepute.
On Monday morning, 139 MPs unanimously voted for the suspension of immunity for two opposition MPs, and one government representative. In his long and angry speech, the prime minister himself requested that his immunity be suspended; he then spent several minutes attacking the Office of the Prosecutor General and accusing previous governments of provocation, calling them a “mafia.”
Magyar is being investigated for his conduct during a notorious drunken night out in June 2024, when he was filmed crawling under the legs of young ladies in a night club, from which he was subsequently ejected by security.
He was then filmed walking around Budapest in suspiciously dirty trousers, and is accused of snatching someone’s private phone and throwing it into the river. He is charged with theft misdemeanor for the alleged incident. The case is treated as theft of an item of minor value under the Hungarian Criminal Code.
Magyar has consistently called the case politically motivated and a “sham.” The European Parliament infamously refused to lift his immunity as an MEP in 2025. After he became prime minister, Hungarian prosecutors requested that the National Assembly lift his parliamentary immunity.
The prime minister is no stranger to controversy. An investigation about alleged domestic incidents, based on statements by his ex-wife, Judit Varga, was closed in 2026 for lack of evidence. Earlier, the Government Audit Office (KEHI) conducted an investigation in 2021 into the contracts of the Student Loan Center from 2018 to 2020. It classified several communications, research, and consulting contracts as overpriced or awarded without genuine competition. According to press reports, the contracts in question are totaling more than 1.1 billion forints (EUR 2.7 mil.) net starting in 2018, a significant portion of which were signed under Magyar’s leadership. Magyar’s position was that he signed the contracts under pressure from above, and the KEHI audit was political blackmail. He stepped down as head of the Student Loan Center (Diákhitel) in early 2022.
The KEHI case file was handed over to the police in 2024. In 2025, the chief prosecutor announced that an investigation was underway at the National Bureau of Investigation on suspicion of embezzlement and other criminal offenses. No public, final indictment or conviction is known to have resulted from this case as yet.
Conveniently though, in June 2026, while serving as prime minister, Magyar dismissed Szabolcs Barna Gaál, the president of KEHI. FIDESZ called this an act of revenge.
Balázs Hankó, FIDESZ Member of Parliament and former Minister of Culture and Innovation (center), at a press conference in the Parliament Building on September 28, 2026. MTI/Kovács Márton
At today’s session, the National Assembly ultimately also suspended the immunity of former Minister of Culture, Balázs Hankó, a FIDESZ member of parliament, and reached a similar decision in the case of Miklós Seszták, a Christian Democrat MP (KDNP). Mr. Seszták has since handed himself in to prosecutors, and has been promptly arrested on suspicion of corruption.
Prior to the extraordinary parliamentary session, FIDESZ caucus leader János Bóka announced at a press conference that the caucus would not participate in the session, reported Magyar Nemzet. According to Bóka, FIDESZ does not wish to be complicit in “this political puppet show.”
At the press conference, Hankó, former Minister of Culture and Innovation, claimed that a politically motivated investigation is still underway against him, aimed at intimidating him. Upon arriving at the meeting of the Immunity Committee, Hankó stated that he had prepared a defense in which he intended to refute the allegations made against him. Leaving the meeting, Hankó said, “I refuted everything, point by point,” and added that he would issue a detailed press statement later that day.
Featured Image: MTI/Szigetváry Zsolt
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