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Peter Magyar led his Tisza party to a supermajority Sunday, on a platform that promised to restore ties with allies and root out corruption. Magyar said Monday he will press Russian President Vladimir Putin to "end the killing" in Ukraine.

Carney congratulated Magyar "on a decisive election victory," in a social media post Sunday.

"The Hungarian people have chosen a new path. We are ready to work with you, and our European allies, to deepen our co-operation in trade, defence, and security," Carney wrote.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand had a similar message. 

"The people of Hungary have made their choice in a decisive election, setting a new course for the country," she wrote.

Analysts say it will take time for the central European country to rebuild institutions.

"Undoing this process is something that is really going to be a tedious and cumbersome process for Hungarians, and they need patience to do this," said Roger Hilton, a Canadian analyst with the Globsec think tank, based in Vienna.

In recent years, the European Union had frozen funds for the country over democratic backsliding.

While protests were allowed in Hungary, the Orban government meddled in the media sector, with government-funded outlets closely following political dissidents. Orban funded think tanks that advanced socially conservative and pro-Russia views that were hostile to left-leaning groups and LGBTQ+ people.

As for Ukraine, Hilton said Orban was "disastrous and disruptive" in impeding EU support against Russia's invasion.

Hilton said Hungary repeatedly abstained or missed EU votes that required all members' support to help fund Ukraine's defence, while not allowing allies' military donations to cross Hungary in order to reach Ukraine.

Hilton said it's unclear how much tangible support Hungary will provide Ukraine. Magyar was not, in past, "over the top pro-Ukrainian," said Hilton, who expects him to abstain from EU votes.

"He might not be voting for everything, but he's just not going to be blocking everything," Hilton said. "They have a lot of work to do to sort of get back to a level where people will engage with them on a higher diplomatic and military level."

He added that Magyar will be largely focused on Hungary's domestic economic woes — which will likely be helped by unfreezing EU funds.

Sunday's vote had the highest turnout since the 1989 end of communism in Hungary, and came after an array of political parties coalesced to help protect Hungarian democracy. But undoing 16 years of policies that attacked the courts and media will take time, Hilton said.

"I'm not convinced that just because they had this one moment here that the extreme right, or the far right, is going to be stopping," he said.

This report by ¹ú²úÓÕ»ó¸£Àû was first published April 13, 2026.

— With files from The Associated Press