Reuters has more details on Péter Magyar’s appearance on Hungarian state media this morning.
The Tisza leader has said he will suspend state media news broadcasts, which critics at home and abroad say became a government mouthpiece under Viktor Orbán, and restore media freedoms after his cabinet takes power.
“Every Hungarian deserves a public service media that broadcasts the truth,” Magyar said on Kossuth state radio, where Orbán had been a weekly guest while opposition politicians rarely got invited.
“We will need a little time to pass a new media law, a new media authority and setting up the professional conditions for state media to actually do what it is meant to do,” Magyar added.
“We have just witnessed the last days of a propaganda machine. After the formation of the Tisza government, we will suspend the news services of the ‘public’ media until its public service character is restored,” he wrote on X after he was interviewed on state television.
