Orbán calls new government tyrannical in Facebook post

Hungary's former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has launched a forceful political counterattack against the new government, accusing it of establishing tyranny and dismantling democracy just months after his party's 16-year rule ended. In a "Statement of Resistance" posted on Facebook late on July 21, Orbán declared that Hungary had "ceased to be a democratic state" and vowed his Fidesz party would use all peaceful tools to oppose the current administration.

The statement marked Orbán's first major political intervention since his Fidesz party suffered a landslide defeat in the April parliamentary elections, which brought Prime Minister Péter Magyar's center-right Tisza party to power with a supermajority. Orbán's accusations center on constitutional amendments passed by the new government, which ended the mandates of President Tamás Sulyok and the head of the Constitutional Court. The government cited a "serious loss of confidence" in Sulyok, who was elected in 2024 by Fidesz lawmakers. Parliament is now expected to elect a new president.

Orbán's statement followed an announcement from Fidesz that prosecutors had raided offices housing the party's internet servers. Prosecutors...