2026 in Hungary

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Events in the year 2026 in Hungary .

Incumbents

• President: Tamás Sulyok
• Prime Minister: Viktor Orbán
• Speaker of the National Assembly: László Kövér

Events

January

• 5 January – Viktor Orbán holds an international press conference, followed by a press conference of Péter Magyar. ^[1]
• 12 January – Hungary grants asylum to former Polish justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro, who is wanted on charges of corruption. ^[2]
• 13 January – President Tamás Sulyok sets the date of the upcoming parliamentary election to 12 April. ^[3]
• 15 January – György Gattyán's Solution Movement declares not to participate on the 2026 election. ^[4]
• 17 January –
  • István Kapitány, the former vice-president of Shell, debuts as Tisza's economy and energy expert. ^[5]
  • Parties 2RK and LMP declare they will not participate on the 2026 election. ^{[6] [7]}
• 19 January – Polymarket is blocked in Hungary. ^[8]
• 20 January – The Szőlő Street Correction Facility is closed. ^[9]
• 22 January – János Lázár at a Lázárinfó in Balatonalmádi talks about how Roma people (as opposed to migrants) form an "internal reserve" workforce for tasks such as toilet cleaning, tasks that "Hungarian voters" are unwilling to do. ^{[10] [11]} He apologizes for his statement on 24 January. ^[12]
• 24 January – Anita Orbán debuts as Tisza's foreign policy expert. ^[13]
• 26 January – Hungary summons the Ukrainian ambassador after Viktor Orbán accuses Kyiv of interfering in the upcoming general election. ^[14]
• 27 January – News about MSZP not participating in the upcoming election are published in Magyar Nemzet , but party leader Imre Komjáthi claims a decision has not yet been made. ^[15]
• 28 January – Prosecutors charge Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony for organizing Budapest Pride last year, despite it being banned by the law on assembly. ^[16]
• 29 January – Katalin Cseh declares that their Hungarian Humanists' Party  [ hu ] will not run in the 2026 election. ^[17]

February

• 3 February – The government uses its emergency powers to terminate its ongoing lawsuits with municipal governments (including Budapest) over the solidarity contribution tax for 2023-2025. ^{[18] [19]}
• 4 February – Budapest Complex: A court in Budapest sentences German activist Maja T. to eight years in prison for participating in assaults on attendees of a far-right rally in Budapest in 2023, following her extradition from Germany despite later objections by the Federal Constitutional Court. ^[20]
• 5 February – US president Donald Trump endorses Orbán for the 2026 election. ^[21]
• 7 February –
  • Tisza publishes its election program. ^{[22] [23]}
  • Dialogue announces it will not run in the 2026 election. ^[24]
• 8 February – Fidesz wins the municipal by-election in Balmazújváros 7th constituency with 47.09%. ^[25]
• 9 February – An article published on Telex ^[26] on the unhealth work conditions in Samsung's battery factory in Göd leads to a political scandal. ^[27]
• 10 February – A mysterious photo of an empty bedroom appears on the website radnaimark.hu ^{[28] [29]} Tisza vice-president Márk Radnai denies any relation to the photo. Péter Magyar claims Fidesz might be threatening him with revenge porn. ^[30]
• 12 February – Péter Magyar claims he had a honey trap affair with Evelin Vogel on August 2, 2024, in the same room from radnaimark.hu, and claims they were trying to compromise him by placing drugs in the room, but he did not partake in it. ^[31]
• 13 February – Three people are killed in a building fire in Budakeszi. ^[32]
• 13-14 February – Péter Magyar attends the Munich Security Conference, meeting with Polish, German, Austrian and Croatian leaders. ^{[33] [34]}
• 14 February – Orbán holds his annual "Year in Review" event. He claims Tisza represents the interests of western capital, especially Shell and Erste. ^[35]
• 15 February –
  • Greenpeace organizes a protest in front of the Foreign Ministry, against the Göd factory. ^[36]
  • Péter Magyar holds his "Year in Review" event. ^[37] This marks the beginning of his election campaign.
• 16 February – US secretary of state Marco Rubio visits Hungary, holding a press conference with Orbán. ^[38]
• 18 February – Hungary suspends exports of diesel fuel to Ukraine, citing attacks on the Druzhba pipeline. ^[39]
• 19 February – Vsquare uncovers government plans to privatize land adjacent to Budapest railway stations. ^{[40] [41]}
• 20 February – MSZP announces it will not run in the upcoming election ^[42]
• 21 February – Collection of signatures begins for the election. ^{[43] [44]}
• 23 February – Slovakia joins Hungary in blocking the European Union’s 20th sanctions package against Russia, preventing its adoption ahead of the fourth anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. ^{[45] [46]}
• 24 February – Orbán announces that Hungary has ended all support for Ukraine, including through European Union framework, until Ukraine resumes oil transfers via the Druzhba pipeline. ^[47]
• 25 February – Orbán orders the deployment of additional security forces across energy facilities, citing a Ukrainian plot to disrupt energy supplies. ^[48]
• 27 February – Freight traffic resumes on the renovated Budapest–Belgrade railway ^[49]

March

• 4 March – Russia releases two dual Hungarian-Ukrainian nationals who had been captured while fighting for Ukraine following negotiations between Russian president Vladimir Putin and Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó. ^[50]
• 5 March –
  • Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he would prefer not to repair the Druzhba pipeline. ^{[51] [52]}
  • Ukraine accuses Hungary of hostage-taking and theft following the detention of two vans and seven staff of the Ukrainian bank Oschadbank by Hungarian authorities while transiting cash through to Austria. ^[53]
• 6 March – The European Commission rebukes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over remarks that Hungary interpreted as a threat against Prime Minister Orbán. ^{[54] [55] [56]}
• 12 March – Ukrainian former MP and Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) officer Hryhoriy Omelchenko makes a threat to Orbán. ^{[57] [58]}
• 14 March – The Hungarian Defence Forces reports that Hungarian soldiers have safely left the Erbil airbase in Iraq due to the ongoing Iran War. ^[59]
• 15 March – A Pro-Fidesz "peace march" is held from Elvis Presley tér to Kossuth tér, where Orbán, Lázár and Szijjártó hold speeches. ^[60] Péter Magyar holds a "national march" at Heroes' Square. ^[61] Minor rallies are also held by MKKP at Liberty Bridge ^[62] and MH at Corvin Köz. ^[63]
• 17 March – Hungary and Slovakia sign an agreement to build a 127 km (79 mi)-long oil pipeline running from Százhalombatta to Bratislava. ^[64]

Predicted and scheduled

• 12 April – 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election ^[65]
• 30 May – 2026 UEFA Champions League final ^[66]

Holidays

Further information: Public holidays in Hungary

Source: ^{[67] [68]}

• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 15 March – Revolution Day
• 3 April – Good Friday
• 5 April – Easter Monday
• 1 May – International Workers' Day
• 25 May – Whit Monday
• 20 August – State Foundation Day
• 23 October – 1956 Revolution Memorial Day
• 1 November – All Saints' Day
• 25 December – Christmas Day
• 26 December – Boxing Day

Art and entertainment

• List of Hungarian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Deaths

• 2 January – Lajos Rovátkay, 92, harpsichordist and musicologist. ^[69]
• 5 January – Miklós Dudás, 34, Olympic sprint canoeist (2012), world champion (2014). ^[70]
• 6 January – Béla Tarr, 70, film director ( Sátántangó , Werckmeister Harmonies , The Turin Horse ). ^[71]
• 26 January – Béla Lattmann, 65, jazz bassist. ^[72]
• 31 January – Miklós Fenyő, 78, singer, songwriter and musician. ^[73]
• 6 February – Éva Keleti, 94, photographer. ^[74]

See also

• 2026 in the European Union
• 2026 in Europe

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65. "Hungary sets April 12 election date as Orbán faces tough challenge". AP News. 13 January 2026.
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