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Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar, the Tisza Party's leader, speaks to the media after the preparatory meeting for the inaugural session of the Parliament in Budapest, Hungary, April 17, 2026. © 2026 Robert Hegedus/MTI via AP Photo

At his first international press conference, Hungary’s prime minister-elect Péter Magyar pledged to reverse his country’s move to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Magyar won a landslide victory in Hungary’s April 12 election, where he campaigned, among other things, on restoring rule of law and ties with the EU, opposing former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Today, ICC membership is required of EU candidate countries in order to accede to the EU which has made legally binding commitments to promote and protect the court.…