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Events in the year 2025 in Hungary.

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

• January 1 –
  • After midnight, Péter Magyar holds a New Year's speech in which he calls for early elections.^[1] There is no presidential speech from Tamás Sulyok.
  • Land crossings on the Hungary–Romania border open, as Romania joins the Schengen Area^[2]
• January 7 – The United States imposes sanctions on cabinet minister Antal Rogán for alleged corruption.^[3]
• January 12 – By-election in Tolna 2nd Constituency.^[4] Fidesz holds the constituency with their candidate Krisztina Csibi .
• January 20 – Emirati real estate developer Abu Dhabi Eagle Hills purchases a 100 hectare area around the former Rákosrendező marshalling yard in Budapest. Their planned development, titled Grand Budapest, is controversial and opposed by the city; though there are no concreate plans to speak of, some areas are zoned for skyscrapers up to 500 meters.^[5][6]
• January 23 – More than 240 schools nationwide receive bomb threats of identical content and believed to have been sent by a sole sender.^[7]

• February 6 – The Hungarian government acknowledges Budapest's priority to buy the Rákosrendező property^[8]
• February 12 – Viktor Orbán meets Alice Weidel, leader of the German AfD^[9]
• February 14 – Bertalan Havasi, Deputy Secretary for the Prime Minister's Press Office, leaves his position.^[10]
• February 15 – First Congress of Tisza Party^[11][12]
• February 17 – Antal Csárdi leaves LMP's parliamentary fraction.^[13] As the number of LMP representatives falls below 5, it is no longer qualified to from a fraction. After they fail to recruit another representative, the LMP fraction ceases to exist, and the remaining 4 representatives become independent.^[14]
• February 22 –
  • Protest in front of the Ministry of Justice in Budapest.^[15]
  • Viktor Orbán delivers the annual State of the Nation address. He introduces expansion of some welfare measures,^[16] announces constitutional amendments to protect the "right to use cash", and to mandate the existence of only two genders. He also threatens to ban pride parades in Hungary.^[17]

• March 7 – Orbán announces a consultation on Ukraine's EU accession, titled Voks 2025
• March 12 – The governing Fidesz party submits its proposed amendments to the constitution to the parliament.^[18][19][20]
• March 15 – National Holiday
  • Orbán speaks at the National Museum, promising an "Easter cleanup" against foreign-funded judges, journalists and NGOs, calling them "bugs".^[21]
  • Péter Magyar holds a rally at Andrássy út.^[22] He announces a consultation titled Nemzet Hangja (Voice of the Nation)
• March 18 – The National Assembly passes a ban on pride parades. Opposition representatives protest with smoke candles, shouting and playing the Soviet National Anthem.^[23] A protest blocks Margaret Bridge at Jászai Mari Tér.^[24]
• March 22 – Péter Magyar accuses Orbán of holding zebras at his Hatvanpuszta estates^[25][26]
• March 23 – By-election in Budapest 11th constituency. DK candidate László Varju is re-elected
• March 25 – Hadházy's second protest against the Pride ban.
• March 27 – János Lázár speaks out against the luxurious lifestyle among the NER oligarchy at a street forum in Kisvárda, calling to "sweep away those who, like ticks, abused the opportunities we created".

• April 1 – Hadházy's third protest against the Pride ban.
• April 3 –
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lands in Budapest for a state visit to Hungary, a signatory of the International Criminal Court, in defiance of the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against him for alleged war crimes.^[27]
  • The Hungarian Government announces it will withdraw from the International Criminal Court.^[27]
  • Thousands rally for Péter Magyar in Debrecen^[28]
• April 7 – Speech from Tisza MEP Kinga Kollár in the European Parliament, in which she calls EU sanctions "very effective"^[29] triggers attacks against her in pro-Fidesz media, where it is compared to Gyurcsány's Őszöd Speech.^[30][31]
• April 12 –
  • Hungarian Two Tailed Dog Party holds "Illiberal Pride" rally parodising pro-Fidesz peace marches and the recent Pride ban.^[32]
  • Zsolt Bayer protests against Kinga Kollár and the Tisza Party at Millenáris Park^[33]
• April 13 –
  • Péter Takács Secretary of Healthcare begins to tour hospitals whose renovation is delayed due to EU sanctions^[34]
  • Tisza announces the results of their Voice of the Nation consultation. 58.18% of responders voted in support of Ukraine's EU membership.^[35]
• April 14 – Parliament passes the constitutional amendment outlawing public events by the LGBTQ+ community.^[36] The constitutional amendments, will also protect the "right to use cash", mandate the existence of only two genders (male or female), and Hungarian citizenship of dual citizens may be suspended for definite periods of time.^[37][38] Momentum protests by blocking Chain Bridge^[39]
• April 17 – Viktor Orbán gives an interview to András Hont^[40][41]
• April 23 – Public procurement is announced for tram extension to Nádorkert in Budapest^[42][43]

• May 5 –
  • Anna Orosz resigns her seat in Parliament.^[44]
  • Ex-DK politician Gábor Leel-Őssy registers the DUNA (Danube) Party^[45]
• May 6 – Hadházy protests at Ferenciek tere, then marches to the MTA building. Two people are prosecuted claiming the march was illegal.^[46]
• May 7–8 – Hungarian cardinal of the Catholic Church Péter Erdő is an Elector in the 2025 papal conclave. Erdő was seen as a leading candidate in the 2025 papal conclave but is not elected.
• May 8 –
  • Ferenc Gyurcsány withdraws from politics, resigns from Parliament and as the leader of DK. His wife Klára Dobrev also announces their divorce^[47]
  • Péter Magyar releases a 2023 recording of Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky saying "Let's break with the peace mentality and move to phase zero on the road to war"^[48][49]
  • Csaba Hende and Péter Polt are nominated to the Constitutional Court^[50]
• May 9 –
  • The Security Service of Ukraine claims to have uncovered Hungarian spies tasked with infiltrating Zakarpattia Oblast.^[51]
  • In retaliation Hungary expels two Ukrainian diplomats it accuses of spying.^[52][53][54] Ukraine likewise expels two Hungarian diplomats.^[55]
  • Orbán expresses support for Romanian presidential candidate George Simion at a speech in Tihany.^[56] After protest from RMDSZ, he backtracks to a non-committal stance.^[57]
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• May 12 –
  • Presidency of Momentum declares against running for the 2026 election.^[58]
  • Karácsony dismisses BKV CEO Tibor Bolla over his connections to organised crime^[59][60]
• May 13 –
  • Orbán claims "a Hungarian opposition party" is an active participant in foreign intelligence actions against Hungary.^[61] In response Péter Magyar threatens with legal action.^[62]
  • Hadházy protests at Ferenciek tere, marches to the Ministry of Defense building.^[63]
  • In the late evening (23:38), Fidesz MP János Halász introduces a bill that would restrict and penalize organisations receiving foreign funding based on a list compiled by the Sovereignty Protection Office.^[64][65]
• May 14 –
  • Péter Magyar begins his "one million steps" walk from Budapest to Oradea (Nagyvárad)^[66]
  • Péter Polt resigns.^[67] Next day Gábor Bálint Nagy is nominated as Chief Prosecutor^[68]
• May 17 – Procurement for tram extension to Nádorkert is listed as withdrawn^[69]
• May 18 –
  • Fidesz inaugurates their online activist group named Fight Club^[70]
  • Tens of thousands protest at Kossuth Square against the bill on foreign funding^[71]

• 13–20 June – 2025 World Judo Championships^[72][73]

Source:^[74]

• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 15 March – Revolution Day
• 18 April – Good Friday
• 21 April – Easter Monday
• 1 May – International Workers' Day
• 9 June – 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

• List of Hungarian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

• 2 January – Ágnes Keleti, 103, Hungarian-Israeli artistic gymnast, Olympic champion (1952, 1956), pneumonia.^[75]

• 16 May – Peter Lax, 99, Hungarian-born American mathematician, Abel Prize laureate (2005).^[76]

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