2024 in Hungary

• President: Katalin Novák, Tamás Sulyok
• Prime Minister: Viktor Orbán
• Speaker of the National Assembly: László Kövér

January

• January 15 – Construction of the Southern Ring Rail begins in Budapest.^[1]
• January 27 – László Toroczkai said at a conference that his party Mi Hazánk Mozgalom would lay claim to a Hungarian-populated region in western Ukraine if the war led to Ukraine losing its statehood.^[2]

February

• February 2 – 444.hu publicizes President Katalin Novák's pardon, dated April 2023, of Endre Kónya, a former deputy director of an orphanage in Bicske who had been imprisoned due to his involvement in a pedophilia case implicating the orphanage's director.^[3][4]
• February 5 – The ruling party Fidesz boycotts an extraordinary National Assembly session called by opposition groupings to speed up the approval of Sweden's NATO membership bid.^[5]
• February 10 – President Novák resigns due to the scandal involving her pardon of Endre Kónya. Judit Varga, who was serving as Minister of Justice in 2023 and had countersigned the pardon, also resigns as a Member of Parliament and withdraws her candidacy for member of the European Parliament in the 2024 election.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}
• February 11 – Péter Magyar, Judit Varga's ex-husband gives a live interview on the left-wing YouTube channel Partizán^[11]
• February 16 –
  • Kormányinfó government press conference held by Gergely Gulyás
  • Zoltán Balog resigns from the synodal presidency of the Hungarian Reformed Church
  • Tens of thousands protest in Heroes Square, Budapest against child abuse, organised by Hungarian social media influencers^[12][13]
• February 17 – Viktor Orbán delivers the annual State of the Nation address
• February 22 – Tamás Sulyok is nominated Fidesz presidential candidate, Tamás Deutsch is nominated head of the Fidesz EP list^[14]
• February 25 – Political parties protest for direct presidential elections in Kossuth Square, Budapest^[15]
• February 26 – Parliament's spring session opens
  • Parliament ratifies Sweden's bid to join NATO.^[16]
  • Parliament approves Katalin Novák's resignation. Speaker of the house László Kövér becomes acting president.
  • 2024 Hungarian presidential election: Tamás Sulyok is elected president

March

• March 5 –
  • Tamás Sulyok assumes office as President. His first act is to sign a bill formally authorizing the Foreign Ministry to ratify Sweden's accession to NATO.^[17]
• March 10 – Gergely Kovács and Zsuzsanna Döme, co-chairs of the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party (MKKP), resign after the party rejects Kovács' participation in a primary election in Budapest District XII.^[18] They reverse their decision next day.^[19]
• March 14 – Alexandra Szentkirályi becomes the Fidesz mayoral candidate in Budapest^[20]
• March 15 – Holiday, most political parties hold rallies in Budapest
  • Péter Magyar holds a rally at Andrássy út attended by around 10,000 people, during which he announces the launch of Talpra Magyarok Mozgalom
  • Viktor Orbán holds a rally in Budapest, railing against the "western world", and Brussels.^[21]
• March 19 – Dávid Vitézy declares his candidacy for Mayor of Budapest^[22]
• March 21-24 – Zoltán Perlai (DK) wins primary elections in Budapest District XXII.^[23]
• March 24 – Five people are killed and six others are injured after a rally car crashes into spectators during a race between Lábatlan and Bajót, Komárom-Esztergom County.^[24]
• March 26 – Péter Magyar releases a recording of him and his ex-wife Judit Varga, as proof for government crimes around the Völner-Schadl scandal. He holds a rally in Budapest that evening.
• March 28 – DK, MSZP and PM agrees on strategic cooperation, a common list for the upcoming EP, Local elections, and the 2026 parliamentary elections^[25]

April

• April 6 – Péter Magyar holds a huge rally in Kossuth Square, Budapest^{[26] [27]}
• April 10 – Péter Magyar declares he will run in colors of the previously marginal TISZA party^[28]
• April 14 – Primary election in Budapest District XII using Instant-runoff voting is won by MKKP candidate Gergely Kovács^[29]

Scheduled events

• 9 June 2024 – 2024 European Parliament election in Hungary, 2024 Hungarian local elections
• 28 November – 15 December – 2024 European Women's Handball Championship^[30][31]

March

• 24 March – Péter Eötvös, 80, composer, conductor and teacher.^[32]

April

• April 4 – Zsuzsa Ferge^[33]
• 5 April – Péter Schumann, 69, footballer.^[34]

Source:^[35]

• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 15 March – Revolution Day
• 29 March – Good Friday
• 1 April – Easter Monday
• 1 May – International Workers' Day
• 20 May – Whit Monday
• 20 August – State Foundation Day
• 23 October – 1956 Revolution Memorial Day
• 1 November – All Saints' Day
• 25 December – Christmas Day
• 26 December – Boxing Day

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