Hungary’s New PM Magyar Demands President Quit in Showdown

Hungary’s newly installed prime minister Peter Magyar called on the president to quit in a confrontation in parliament that sought to draw the line on 16 years of increasingly autocratic rule by Viktor Orban.

Magyar, facing Tamas Sulyok in parliament minutes after he took the oath of office as Hungarian premier, called on the head of state to have the “courage” to quit after what he said was a failure to speak up against the previous government’s failings. Those ranged from the destruction of democracy to the abuse of children at state homes, he said.