Hungarian Parliament strips Prime Minister Peter Magyar of immunity

The Hungarian Parliament has approved the request of the prosecutor’s office to lift the immunity of Prime Minister Peter Magyar. For the decision voted 139 deputies, against and abstained, said the speaker Agnes Forsthoffer at an extraordinary meeting.

According to Telex, the initiative was supported by the ruling Tisa party and the ultra-conservative Our Homeland. The factions of the opposition Fidesz and Christian Democrats did not appear in protest – the meeting also considered the issue of lifting immunity from two of their deputies.

Madyar himself asked to remove his immunity, stating his readiness to cooperate with the investigation. According to investigators, in June 2024, he took the phone from a man filming it in a nightclub and threw the device into the Danube. The Prime Minister calls it a provocation.

The prosecutor’s office qualifies the actions as theft under Article 370 of the Criminal Code of Hungary. The cost of the smartphone is estimated at €275. Peter Magyar faces fines, community service or up to two years in prison. Fidesz said he could become the first prime minister convicted of stealing a phone.