Hungary's Prime Minister-elect, Peter Magyar, said he will move the prime minister's office to Budapest as soon as he is sworn in.
“Under the Tisza government, the Prime Minister’s Office will not be located in the Carmelite Palace in the Castle District, which Viktor Orbán had built for himself, but in one of the ministry buildings next to the parliament,” Magyar wrote in X on Thursday.
The Baroque Carmelite Monastery in Buda, on the west side of the Danube, historically served as a Catholic monastery and later as a theater before being converted into Prime Minister Orbán's office in 2019 at a cost reported to be more than 50 million euros. The Hungarian Parliament Building, one of Budapest's most iconic landmarks, is located on the river's east bank.
The move marks another attempt by Magyar to distance himself from his predecessor, after he appeared on Orban-affiliated state television to announce that he would suspend its operations. In an interview on Wednesday, Magyar described the broadcaster as a "factory of lies" and said he would "immediately suspend the service of fake news."
Hungary's Tisza Party won a landslide victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections, drawing congratulations from most European leaders. He is expected to be appointed prime minister by parliament in early May.
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