Hungary’s new PM tells state broadcaster ‘we are shutting down your lying service’ in extraordinary first interview

Hungary’s incoming prime minister has vowed to shut down state media news channels when he takes power, describing it as a “factory of lies” in an extraordinary series of interviews after his landslide election win. In its place, prime minister-elect Peter Magyar said, the incoming Tisza party will build a “real, independent public broadcaster – one where the opposition finally has a voice too”. Mr Magyar won a critical election against nationalist prime minister Viktor Orban on Sunday, ending a 16-year tenure that saw his government take strict control over state media channels as part of his so-called “illiberal democracy”....