Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has pledged to reorganize his political camp and continue ‘fighting for the Hungarian people’ following Fidesz–KDNP’s electoral defeat, in a video message published on X on Monday evening.
In the post, Orbán announced that Fidesz will hold a national board meeting on 28 April as part of efforts to restructure and mobilize its base in the aftermath of Sunday’s parliamentary election.
Speaking in an accompanying video message, the prime minister said that more than 2,250,000 voters supported the Fidesz–KDNP party list and its candidates. ‘This is what the national side, our political community, looks like in Hungary today,’ he stated.
Orbán thanked supporters for their backing, noting that a similar level of support had been sufficient for a ‘landslide victory’ in 2014. ‘Yesterday, however, this was only enough for a respectable showing and a defeat,’ he added.
He emphasized that voters on the ‘national side’ can continue to rely on Fidesz, describing the party as ‘Hungary’s most cohesive political community’ that has ‘faithfully served the Hungarian people for decades’.
The work begins now. We will regroup and continue fighting for the Hungarian people! pic.twitter.com/3PKz3UTOrR
— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) April 13, 2026
Outlining the next steps, Orbán said the party plans to ‘protect the achievements of the national side together’, adding that in the coming weeks Fidesz will visit every constituency, convene its volunteers, activists, representatives, and candidates, and begin a process of internal reorganization. ‘The work has begun,’ he concluded.
Hungary held parliamentary elections on 12 April, which resulted in a landslide victory for the opposition Tisza Party led by former Fidesz insider Péter Magyar. By winning more than 135 seats, Tisza secured a supermajority in the 199-member National Assembly, ending the 16-year rule of Viktor Orbán. The party was supported by 3.3 million voters.
During his first international press conference as prime minister-elect, Péter Magyar hailed the results as the beginning of a broader ‘system change’, accusing the Orbán government of presiding over a system marked by corruption and the misuse of state resources, and pledging to hold former officials accountable for alleged abuses and the ‘plundering’ of public funds.
He also called for the resignation of several key officeholders linked to the previous system, including President Tamás Sulyok, the prosecutor general, and senior judicial leaders, warning that if they did not step down voluntarily, the incoming government would remove them from their positions.
At the same time, Magyar emphasized the need for national unity following the vote, noting that despite deep political divisions, the incoming government bears responsibility for representing and rebuilding the country as a whole.
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