The purges started in Hungary right away – a tough message for Orbán’s “puppets”.

Hungarian election winner and future prime minister Péter Hungarian immediately sent a strong message on election night about cleaning up the Hungarian administration of the outgoing prime minister Viktor Orbánin of allies.

Magyar ordered the Hungarian president Tamás Sulyokia to ask him to form a government, as is the duty of the president, and then submit his resignation himself.

“I call on the president of the republic to ask the winner to form a government and then leave his position,” Magyar said According to Euronews.

“I demand everyone [Orbánin] puppets who have been in power for 16 years to do the same.”

It also tells about the message to the president Euractiv website. Magyar’s order also targeted other high-ranking officials appointed by Orbán, such as the presidents of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court, as well as the head of the media monitoring authority. During the election campaign, Magyar’s Tisza party accused high-ranking officials of acting in the name of the ruling party, Orbán’s Fidesz.

Consequences coming, Magyar promises

According to Magyar, it is better for Orbán’s allies to resign themselves before they are fired. According to Magyar, who has campaigned against corruption in Fidesz, Hungary is now beginning to face consequences for entities that have taken advantage of public funds and EU money.

“From now on, we will no longer be a country where there are no consequences. Those who have stolen from the state will now have to answer for their actions.”

According to Euractiv, Tisza’s supporters who gathered to celebrate the election victory on Sunday night shouted “prison” for the leaders of the old regime. However, Magyar was more conciliatory in his statements, the newspaper says. He said that he intends to represent the voters of the defeated Fidesz and that he intends to unite the Hungarian people.

To sympathize with the EU, aiming for EU money

Tisza has promised to include Hungary in the EU Prosecutor’s Office and Magyar confirmed this in his comments on Sunday. The promise is related to suspicions of corruption and misuse of EU money, as the agency acts as a prosecuting authority in crimes that harm the EU’s financial interests. Magyar also promises to restore the three-way division of power in Hungary, where Orbán has concentrated power in the hands of his party.

Magyar’s promises about the democratic distribution of power and the EU prosecutor’s office are also related to money, as he assured on Sunday that he will visit Brussels soon to release Hungary’s frozen EU funds for his country’s use.

“We will bring home the EU funding that belongs to Hungarians,” he said, according to Euronews.

According to Magyar, Hungary will once again become a strong European ally and NATO ally, when under Orbán the country has become known as a pro-Russian rival of the EU.

“We represent the interests of Hungarians, because our country’s place is in Europe,” he said.

Are things changing?

Magyar, who is ousting Orbán from power, is his former Fidesz ally, who broke away from the ruling party condemning the corruption in its ranks.

Researchers warned during the election that Tisza’s election victory will not necessarily change Hungary in a decisive way, because during his 16-year reign Viktor Orbán has instilled loyal supporters of Fidesz in all the important institutions of Hungary. Moreover, Magyar himself is not “just any liberal university professor” but a conservative who shares many parts of Orbán’s original political ideology.

However, Magyar’s Tisza seems to have the ability to change. The election result is not yet final, but Tisza is likely to get a two-thirds majority in the Hungarian Parliament. This would give the party the ability to make constitutional changes in a country whose constitution Fidesz has screwed to its own advantage during its reign. Tisza needs 133 representatives in the parliament for such a majority, while according to current forecasts it would According to the BBC getting 138 representatives.