Hungary After the Landslide, What Our Next Review Will Test

Tisza entered the Political Party League in April in 22nd place of 203, with a score of 86, days after winning a two-thirds majority in Hungary. That score assessed a party that had not yet governed. The next refresh will assess what it has done in office.

Five months in, the record includes:

• 23 June: parliament adopts a media law that dissolves MTVA and Duna Média, ends the Media Council mandates and places a new public broadcaster under a nine-member board.
• 30 June: the Sovereignty Protection Office is abolished.
• 17 July: the European Commission’s Rule of Law Report describes a radical change in Hungary, while flagging the procedure for appointing the Prosecutor General and pressure on civic space.
• 2 August: Hungary’s membership of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office takes effect.

Still open: the 2021 child protection law, found in breach of EU law by the Court of Justice on 21 April 2026, has not been repealed, and further media-law amendments are promised for the autumn. A European Parliament fact-finding mission is due in late October, ahead of a possible end to the Article 7 procedure.

Fidesz, now the main opposition party, ranks 201st with a score of 22.