It's not even been two weeks since Péter Magyar won Hungary's elections, and the incoming prime minister is still facing a deluge of misinformation.
Misleading claims circulating on X have targeted Magyar's immigration policies and suggested the prime minister-elect endorsed his rival and outgoing prime minister, Viktor Orbán, as president of the European Commission or the European Council.
One post, which amassed thousands of likes, claims that one of Magyar's policies after he won Hungary's parliamentary elections on 12 April is to ensure "All Ukrainians and other immigrants from outside the EU will lose their work permits starting June."
It goes on to say that all non-EU guest workers in Hungary will be forced to leave the country after this date.
But this isn't accurate.
Magyar focused on the issue of non-EU guest workers in Hungary in a New Year's Eve speech delivered on 31 December 2025.
In the speech, he said that, from 1 June 2026, his Tizsa party would "allow no non-Hungarian guest workers outside of the European Union," in line with his party's strict stance against migration.
This policy, however, does not target Ukrainians and other non-EU migrants that are already inside Hungary before this date.
Moreover, Magyar, unlike what the posts claim, did not repeat this policy plan in a wide-ranging press conference given after his victory, although he did touch on...
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