00:00Hungary's election winner Peter Marjia reaffirms that his government will suspend state media broadcasts
00:06and pass a new media law after his cabinet takes power.
00:10In fact, he also promises press freedom in the country.
00:15On Monday, Marjia said that one of the first measures of his new majority government
00:20would be to suspend public media until objective and impartial reporting could be ensured.
00:25According to him, his administration would like to do this on a parity basis
00:29by bringing together all parliamentary parties and other leaders to form a committee
00:34that ensures objective and impartial news reporting.
00:38Critics say public media served as a government mouthpiece under outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orban
00:43and accused him of presiding over undermining of independent media
00:48as allies of his Fidesz party to control of private outlets, charges he denied.
00:53Orban's landslide defeat handed Marjia a strong majority in Hungary's 199-seat legislature
00:59opening the door for an overhaul of a system that critics in the European Union said
01:04subverted democratic norms.
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