Magyar calls on economy minister to resign

On Monday, Péter Magyar, the opposition Tisza party’s leader, called on Marton Nagy, the national economy minister, to resign immediately.

“Enough of the economic and financial dilettantism of Orbán and co,” he said in a statement. “Almost every day in the past months, data on the Hungarian economy and budget have been catastrophic,” he said.

“Orbán’s flying start was so successful that the government accumulated 42 percent of the annual budget deficit in the first two months of 2025, and Hungary is again leading Europe when it comes to food price inflation,” he added. Magyar said Hungarians had been cut off from EU resources they were entitled to, “due to the industrial-scale corruption of Orbán and company”. “Investments are in free fall, the Hungarian economy is drying out, and Hungarian companies are fighting for survival.”

He insisted that Nagy “is yanking the steering wheel this way and that, threatening various economic sectors, dragging down the entire Hungarian economy and pushing Hungarians deeper and deeper into a cost-of-living crisis”. Magyar called on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to “gather all his courage and fire Márton Nagy … or leave with him hand in hand”.