Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban plans to also give up his seat in parliament after a being soundly defeated in a landslide reelection loss, he announced Saturday.
The right-wing populist suffered a “painful” defeat on April 12, that ended the Trump administration ally’s 16-year grip on the nation from Budapest.
He will instead focus on rebuilding his nationalist-populist party Fidesz, he said in Hungarian in the video address on X.
“I am now needed not in parliament, but in the reorganization of the patriotic movement.”
Orban plans to seek reelection as leader of his Fidesz party in a vote scheduled for June.
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