00:00Peter Magyar has made his first diplomatic priority clear.
00:04Before Brussels or Vienna, Hungary's prime minister-elect is heading to Warsaw to meet Donald Tusk.
00:10And in late 2023, the Polish prime minister wrote the modern playbook on unwinding years of entrenched illiberal rule.
00:18Now Magyar is looking to apply it, especially as the two leaders express a similar to-do list across three
00:25key areas.
00:26What are they?
00:28To bypass an opposition president, Tusk's government used a parliamentary resolution to instantly dismiss state broadcast management, literally taking the
00:38network offline overnight.
00:40And Magyar is threatening the exact same shock therapy.
00:43Following a heated interview last week on public television, which he linked to North Korean propaganda,
00:50he explicitly vowed to suspend the national broadcaster's actual signal the very moment he takes office.
00:56And for judiciary, both leaders made joining European Public Prosecutor's Office a day one priority, reversing their predecessors' refusals to
01:04participate.
01:05However, Tusk is still struggling to implement a full judicial reform.
01:10He has faced a severe gridlock, requiring complex legal acrobatics to bypass presidential vetoes.
01:17Magyar, however, wields a two-thirds constitutional majority.
01:20EU officials are already in Budapest negotiating the release of over 10 billion euro in recovery funds, knowing Magyar has
01:28the parliamentary numbers to push the necessary reforms.
01:32Finally, Tusk rapidly purged the management boards of state-owned enterprises, with the oil giant Orlen being the most famous
01:39example.
01:40And Magyar is preparing a similar sweep across Hungary's state-backed institutions.
01:44He plans to recover state assets and cut funding to ideological networks, like Matias Corvino's Collegium, or MCC.
01:54However, this strategy could have downsides.
01:57Rushing invites legal missteps, and advocates of the outgoing governments argued that neither Orbán nor Morawiecki directly obstructed the transition.
02:06One thing is certain, from illiberal to liberal transitions, the new approach seems to rely on shock therapy to dismantle
02:15the old system overnight.
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