Magyar Has Lifted The State Of Emergency Imposed By Orban

• 14.05.2026, 13:35

Four years after its introduction.

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar announced the lifting of the state of emergency imposed by his predecessor Viktor Orban.

Magyar wrote about it on Facebook.

Viktor Orbán imposed the state of emergency in response first to the Covid pandemic and then to Russian aggression in Ukraine.

"Today, after four years, the state of emergency imposed by Orbán due to the threat of war ends, and with that we say goodbye to governance based on decrees imposed six years ago. We are returning to normal life," Magyar wrote.

Hungarian law provides for three special legal situations: martial law, state of emergency and state of threat. In all three cases, the government has the right to issue decrees.

The state of emergency was declared in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and then extended in 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since then, authorities in Budapest have regularly extended it.