Sunday Commentary: Will the Hungarian dismantle Orban's system?

Seven-time Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti used to say that all power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely. The two-thirds majority won does not guarantee absolute power to the new Prime Minister Peter Magyar, but we are not far from it. Orban did not resist this temptation, and the fact that the Magyar promises that he will does not mean that we should blindly believe his word.

Hungary desperately needs EU funds, while Brussels wants three concessions from the new Hungarian government in return: a constructive approach towards Ukraine, support for sanctions against Russia, and Hungary's withdrawal from the group of EU members that oppose the wider use of qualified majority as a decision-making method in EU institutions, at the expense of unanimous or consensus decision-making.

The Hungarian will not block aid to Ukraine like Orban, but Budapest will continue, with the Hungarian government, to oppose Kiev's entry into the EU. Relations with Russia will no longer be close, but the Hungarian will have to take into account the fact that more than half of his compatriots are against cutting off energy imports from Russia.

Regarding the way decision-making is done in the EU, it is not said that the new government in Budapest will be more constructive than Orban's when it comes to reducing the areas in which decisions are made unanimously in the EU.

In the new Sunday Commentary, we answer the questions:

• Did the citizens of Hungary vote against Orban or for the Hungarians?
• Is there a difference in Orban's and Magyars' interpretations of patriotism, or nationalism?
• What will be the first big test for the new government in Budapest?
• Should the Hungarian imitate Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk?
• What promises would a Hungarian have to keep to prevent a new Orban from happening?
• Will the Hungarian change the media landscape in Hungary?
• Can an authoritarian regime be changed while respecting the principles of the rule of law?
• What problems will the Hungarians have in implementing their election program?
• Did Hungary's membership in the EU and NATO save democracy in that country?

Answers on Sunday at 6:15 PM and 10:30 PM on Television Vijesti.