Hungary’s new Prime Minister Péter Magyar on Friday personally removed fencing around a historic building in the capital Budapest that served as the office of his autocratic predecessor Viktor Orbán.

Magyar announced that the famous Karmelita, located at Budapest's landmark Castle Hill, overlooking the Danube river, will be open for public until authorities decide on its future role.

The former Catholic monastery become a symbol of Orbán’s rule after he had it cordoned off in 2021.

“There is no place for cordons in Hungary after the change of regime,” Magyar told reporters as he symbolically pushed open the fences.…