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Peter Magyar, whose Tisza party won a two-thirds supermajority in Hungary's April 12, 2026 parliamentary elections, has announced plans to immediately suspend state media news broadcasts and pass a new media law — confronting a system that grew to encompass roughly 500 government-aligned outlets and a public broadcaster funded at €420 million per year. The move raises questions about legal barriers, the risk of information vacuums in rural Hungary, EU compliance under the European Media Freedom Act, and the cautionary precedent set by Poland's contested 2024 public media overhaul.