Péter Magyar's Win Could Open a New Window for Climate Action in Hungary ...Middle East

Peter Magyar, Prime Minister-elect of Hungary from the Tisza Party, holds a press conference in Budapest, Hungary, on April 13, 2026. Peter Magyar won with a significant majority in the Hungarian General Election held the previous day. —Balint Szentgallay—Getty Images

Orbán, a far-right authoritarian known for his dismantling of democratic checks and balances and stringent media control, took a mixed approach to climate action throughout his years in power, with his rhetoric often out of line with his actions. 

“Europe is acting out of fear and fear makes us defeatist,” he said in 2023. “We say there’s no future, and as such, this is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.” 

In his 2020 state of the nation address, he declared that, “protecting the climate and nature is truly our Christian and patriotic duty,” and announced that the government was designing a program to reach 90% carbon-neutrality for energy production in the country by 2030.

However, later that year, he joined President Donald Trump during his second presidential campaign at an anti-climate event co-hosted by the Heritage Foundation, the ultra-conservative group behind Project 2025, and the Danube Institute, a Hungarian think tank supportive of Orbán. Another think tank linked to Orbán’s administration held an event to discuss the “perils of net zero” in Brussels that same year. 

The Tisza Party has also called for stronger oversight of polluting battery plants, which came under fire in the lead up to the election. “Investments cannot endanger people’s health and the competitiveness of the country cannot be built on the environment,” the Tisza Party said on Instagram earlier this year. “We are building a liveable country, not only until the next election, but for the next generations.”

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