Hungary’s new PM plans exit from Orbán’s palace base

Hungary’s incoming prime minister, Peter Magyar, has said his government will relocate the Prime Minister’s Office away from the historic Carmelite Palace in Budapest’s Castle District, breaking with the arrangement used under Viktor Orbán.

In a post on X, Magyar stated:

“Under the TISZA government, the Prime Minister’s Office will not be based in the Carmelite Palace in the Castle District, which Viktor Orbán had set up for himself, but in one of the ministry buildings near Parliament.”

The Carmelite Palace has served as the centre of the Hungarian prime minister’s operations under Orbán, who established it as his official workplace after relocating government functions there from the Parliament area.

It is suggested that one of the factors behind the decision may have been concerns over the possible presence of surveillance devices in the former government residence.

By Aghakazim Guliyev