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Péter Magyar

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Péter Magyar is the newly elected prime minister of Hungary.

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"If the Druzhba pipeline is in a condition to carry oil, then it should be reopened as promised."
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"I would not advise the Ukrainian president to go down that road. Not only Hungary, but Europe as a whole would reject it."
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"These align with the European Commission’s expectations."
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"In October, Hungarians would mark the 70th anniversary of the 1956 revolution, having turned over a new page in their history to become part of the 'free world'."
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"the end of propaganda broadcasts"
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"Historic day which marks the end of propaganda broadcasts on public media platforms"
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"The Ukrainian president has threatened prime minister Viktor Orbán."
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"Hungary's energy supply could become 'critical' from Monday due to the Paks shutdown and the ongoing heatwave."
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"Fidesz crossed all limits, and called the video heartless manipulation."
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"Fidesz crossed all limits and called the video heartless manipulation."
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"Quiero dejar claro que [Orbán] no podrá impedir las elecciones del próximo domingo."
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"Hungarians have every reason to fear that the outgoing prime minister, following the advice of Russian agents, is attempting to instil fear in his own people through false-flag operations."
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"Several people publicly pointed out that something might 'accidentally' happen in Serbia near the gas pipeline around the Easter period – a week before the Hungarian elections. And now it has happened."
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"I also want to stress that he will not succeed in disrupting next Sunday's elections. He will not be able to prevent millions of Hungarians from putting an end to the two most corrupt decades in our country's history."
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"If Orbán's propaganda machine uses this provocation for campaign purposes, that will be an open admission that this was a planned false flag operation."
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"offered his 'sincere condolences' to the families of the victims and wished those injured a speedy recovery."
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"We're at the gates of a two-thirds majority victory. Let's gear up and push for the last 100m!"
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"voters are being posed a choice between East and West, propaganda or honest public discourse, corruption or clean public life."
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"my voters had rewritten Hungarian history."
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"We did it, together we overthrew the Hungarian regime."
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"Never before in the history of democratic Hungary have so many people voted - and no single party has ever received such a strong mandate."
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"Tonight we celebrate, but tomorrow, we start work."
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"We did it. We brought down the Orbán regime - together we liberated Hungary. We took back our homeland! Thank you! Thank you all!"
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"Hungary will once again be a strong ally representing Hungarian interests, because our country's place is in Europe."
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"We did it."
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"Tonight, truth prevailed over lies. Today, we won because Hungarians didn't ask what their homeland could do for them — they asked what they could do for their homeland."
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"truth prevailed over lies"
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"If Vladimir Putin calls I'll pick up the phone."
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"my voters had rewritten Hungarian history."
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"If Vladimir Putin calls I'll pick up the phone."
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"Hungary has chosen Europe."
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"Today we won because the Hungarian people didn't ask what their country could do for them, but what they could do for their country."
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"No foreign country may interfere in Hungarian elections."
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"The US was a 'strong and important' Nato partner."
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"He had never been allowed on public TV, until he was asked on Monday morning."
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"Hungarians said yes to Europe today, they said yes to a free Hungary."
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"Every Hungarian deserves a public service media that broadcasts the truth."
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"He is not fit to serve as a moral authority or a role model."
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"Every Hungarian deserves a public service media that broadcasts the truth."
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"He is not fit to serve as a moral authority or a role model."
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"It's no use playing the innocent little ballet girl now, and acting as if nothing happened."
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"Thank you to every Hungarian at home and around the world! It is an immense honor that you have empowered us to form a government with the most votes ever received, and to work for the next four years for a free, European, functioning, and humane Hungary."
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"The Hungarian people didn't vote for a simple change of government, but for a complete change in regime."
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"The Hungarian people didn't vote for a simple change of government, but for a complete change in regime."
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"I oppose fast-track EU membership for Ukraine while the country is still in a war."
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"Tonight, truth prevailed over lies."
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"demands a re-election in the single-mandate constituency where, in his opinion, the political force lost solely due to a dummy candidate named Péter Magyar."
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"in one sentence, EU resources will soon arrive in Hungary."
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"We have done it."
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