He claims to be conservative, and he himself came from Fidesz, Orbán’s party. I would take everything with a pinch of salt, but considering his press conference, he looks promising:

• Anti corruption: he is planning to set up a department specifically to get back all the money that the previous government funneled from public institutions via private funds into their own puppet organizations; he wants to undo the process that forced propaganda into every outlet the previous government bought into in the past 16 years

• Pro EU, anti Russia: while he wants to strengthen relationships with EU states and wants to get out of the Russian grasp, he is aware of the effect on economy, therefore wants to resume deals with Russia once the conflict has been resolved (not before, though). His aim is to diversify the sources of gas and oil so that the country won’t get into a similar trap again.

• He seemed intentionally quiet about LGBT topics throughout his own campaign, and again: he claims to be conservative. However, Orbán’s government often used dirty smearing campaigns (often resorting to blatant lies) against their political opponents. Once you shook hands once with a previously awful prime minister, your photo got everywhere on the streets, claiming that you two are in cahoots - even if that was just a single meeting, regardless of the topic. There was a case when they mocked up a photo about a far right leader being gay (and another about him being pro Muslim). No matter how ridiculous that was (knowing this leader), it has done enough damage to his image to get him to resign from his post. My guess is that Magyar has been trying to avoid these subjects to avoid giving a basis for a smearing campaign. After the elections he seemed to be at the very least neutral about LGBT topics, but I don’t recall any measures to undo the awfully bigoted laws currently in place.

• Apart from the EU, he will try and strengthen relations with the neighboring states. In the case of a few countries, his bare minimum terms are about the improvement of the situation of Hungarian minorities in those states, especially considering Slovakia and Ukraine, but in general he is making an effort to “fill the ditches/moats/trenches dug by Orbán’s government” (I’m sorry, I got too lazy to look up the correct term, but this is how it’s phrased in Hungarian, approximately).

I just heard from a non-Hungarian colleague yesterday that in fact, they have been planning to skew the results - I guess they hadn’t invited those GRU agents from Russia for no reason. However, everything around them seemed to have claimed that either Fidesz was in the lead or there was only a slight difference, at best. This happens when you’re surrounded by yes-men.

I don’t think Orbán thought he was going to lose by a 2/3 margin. It’s a lot easier to argue shenanigans in a closer race

Literally too big to rig.

The guy who won used to be in Orban’s party. So my guess is that he’s going to be happy because his policies are largely going to continue, just under a different face.

The illusion of choice.