Péter Magyar met with Kelemen Hunor in Budapest: “We received guarantees that the UDMR will no longer intervene in the political struggle of the Hungarian parties”

Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar announced in a message posted on Facebook on Tuesday that he had been assured by Kelemen Hunor that the UDMR would not meddle in Hungarian elections in the future. In his own message, Kelemen Hunor only says that Magyar asked him to do so.

Hungary's incoming prime minister Péter Magyar met with Kelemen Hunor in Budapest, a week after criticizing the UDMR for its involvement with Viktor Orbán in Hungary's April 12 elections.

Magyar's message was conciliatory, but he also referred to Kelemen Hunor's assurances that the UDMR would no longer get involved in the political dispute in Budapest.

“We agreed with Mr. President to leave the past behind, and the Tisza government and the UDMR will work together for the survival and development of the Hungarian community in Transylvania,” Magyar wrote on Facebook.

“We received guarantees from Mr. President that, in the future, UDMR will refrain from intervening in the political struggle of Hungarian parties, he continued.

“We also agreed that the irregularities found in relation to postal voting in the 2026 parliamentary elections should be investigated and that, for the future, voting rules should be revised to prevent possible electoral fraud,” Magyar added.

What Kelemen Hunor said after the meeting

In a message also posted on Facebook after the meeting with Magyar, Kelemen Hunor had more nuanced language.

He only stated that “Peter Magyar requested that the UDMR refrain from involvement in internal political disputes in Hungary.”

On suspicions of voting irregularities, he said “we agreed that it was in the common interest to clarify the allegations of postal voting and that the principles of transparency, efficiency and accountability must be respected in the policy of support”.

Kelemen Hunor also said that “as always in the last decades, the UDMR is trying to find a common denominator with the Hungarian Prime Minister and the government.”

Magyar's criticism immediately after the election

The UDMR came into Magyar's sights right after he and his party, Tisza, won Hungary's April 12 parliamentary election, securing a constitutional majority that gives him the tools to dismantle the system built by Fidesz, Orbán's party.

Kelemen Hunor was targeted by Magyar's criticism on Monday in the nearly 3-hour press conference held in Budapest.

Magyar said that a large part of Hungarians in Romania voted with Fidesz because “they are being misled”, stating that “the same propaganda works in Romania”. He added that he would support Hungarians living in Romania “in any way possible”.

Magyar said that Hunor “also had a role”, accusing the UDMR of “participating in a campaign to misinform and mislead Hungarians in Romania”.

“I think it wasn't right,” he said, adding that he intends to talk directly with the UDMR leader: “I'm going to talk to Kelemen Hunor and tell him that I don't hold a grudge.”

Kelemen Hunor strongly supported Viktor Orban

UDMR leaders strongly and consistently supported Orbán, and in the campaign, party leader Kelemen Hunor praised the Hungarian prime minister's “coherent and responsible national policy” regarding Hungarian minorities abroad.

He stated before the elections that, according to polls, over 90% of Romanian voters will vote with Fidesz.

The estimate was more or less confirmed by the official results on the foreign vote.

Investigative site Atlatszo.hu and AFP noted that in Romania, voters could also cast their votes at local UDMR headquarters or non-governmental organizations affiliated with it, a practice criticized by civil society, given UDMR's support for Fidesz.

Magyar announces that he will check the subsidies offered by Budapest

In the message posted on Facebook on Tuesday, Magyar also said that “the rights acquired by Hungarians in Transylvania remain in force and that they can count on the support of the mother country in all aspects.”

“But at the same time, our fundamental expectations regarding subsidies are transparency and accountability, as well as full compliance with Hungarian and Romanian legislative provisions,” Magyar said.

He said the government in Budapest “will check, including retroactively, how the subsidies granted over the past decade have been used.”

He also emphasized that he opposes the evacuation of the abbot of Oradea, Rudolf Anzelm Fejes, from the premises occupied in the Mihai Eminescu National College building in Oradea, and requested the intervention of Kelemen Hunor in this matter.

“I gave assurances that the UDMR will continue to fight for the restitution of confiscated church properties and that, regarding the Oradea case, it will continue to persevere in seeking a legal and administrative solution,” wrote Kelemen Hunor regarding the case.