Incoming Hungarian leader vows to suspend state news broadcasts
Peter Magyar, the election winner, announced his intention to suspend state media news broadcasts after forming a new cabinet. This move aims to restore media freedoms, ending a period of perceived government control under Viktor Orban.
Hungary’s election winner Peter Magyar said on Wednesday he will suspend state media news broadcasts, which critics at home and abroad say became a government mouthpiece under Viktor Orban, and restore media freedoms after his cabinet takes power. Magyar’s TISZA (Respect and Freedom) party won a landslide victory in Sunday’s election, ending Orban’s 16-year rule that became a prototype for “illiberal” conservative rulers across the Western world. “Every Hungarian deserves a public service media...