# Magyar’s U-turn on women’s rights > Hungary’s new PM pledges domestic violence protections as Orbán’s brother faces arrest. - Title: Magyar’s U-turn on women’s rights · EUobserver | Shortify - Summary: Hungary’s new PM pledges domestic violence protections as Orbán’s brother faces arrest. - Keywords: peter magyar, arón orbán, fidesz, tisza government, istanbul convention, domestic violence laws, asset recovery, hungary, parliament, corruption cases, EUobserver - Source: EUobserver — https://euobserver.com/248651/from-pin-up-calendars-to-the-istanbul-convention-magyars-u-turn-as-operation-purgatory-reaches-orbans-brother-day-184-of-the-tisza-government - Published: 2026-11-12T16:48:36+00:00 - Read time: 1 min - Topics: peter magyar, arón orbán, fidesz, tisza government, istanbul convention, domestic violence laws, asset recovery, hungary, parliament, corruption cases, politics, world ## Orbán’s brother on a leash Áron Orbán, Viktor Orbán’s brother, was detained and remanded in pre-trial detention for one month on suspicion of helping Vietnamese nationals enter Europe. > For 16 years it had been utterly unthinkable that an official measure could reach all the way into former prime minister Viktor Orbán’s family. ## The asset-protection law The new government launched an investigation into Áron Orbán’s alleged role in visa fraud for Vietnamese nationals. > According to the Budapest Prosecutor’s Office, over several months in 2:024 Áron Orbán and his three associates helped Vietnamese citizens get to Western Europe via Hungary. ## Péter Magyar and women Prime minister Péter Magyar faced criticism over communist-era secret police records that wrongly identified 164 people as former agents. > Lists published from the archives wrongly identified 164 people, including Fidesz politician Sándor Lezsák, as former agents, when they had actually been victims of surveillance. ## The Absolute Movie Theater Magyar’s video showing naked women calendars in a basement maintenance workshop sparked criticism from Veronika Munk. > Our former colleague Veronika Munk, editor-in-chief of 444.hu, directly confronted the issue in an opinion piece, sharply criticising the video, the objectification of women’s bodies and the conspiratorial, primitive machismo. ## Magyar’s domestic violence package Magyar announced new laws to protect women from domestic violence, including tighter restraining orders and criminalizing intimate recording misuse. > They would tighten restraining-order rules, so that after a request for help the abuser could not approach the victim, for example, at her home or workplace. ## The Istanbul Convention The government plans to ratify the Istanbul Convention to prevent violence against women and protect victims. > The government will initiate the ratification of the Istanbul Convention. The convention lays down obligations for preventing violence against women and domestic violence, protecting victims and prosecuting perpetrators. ## New president’s resistance President András Baka refused to sign a law that could weaken minority shareholder protections. > Baka argued that the law was too broad, could affect existing funds with no state involvement, and offered insufficient protection to smaller investors. ## Fidesz’s freefall Fidesz’s support has fallen to 16 percent, down from 55 percent for the Tisza government. > In the total population, 55 percent would currently vote for the governing party, while Fidesz has fallen to 16 percent. ## Corruption accountability Four-fifths of Hungarians consider uncovering past corruption cases important, with only eight percent seeing it as unimportant. > The poll, commissioned by newspaper HVG, shows that four-fifths of Hungarians consider it important to uncover corruption cases from the past 16 years and hold perpetrators to account, and only eight percent see this as of little importance. ## Operation Purgatory Operation Purgatory has been criticized for being too slow or too harsh, with one-fifth of people saying it’s not fast enough. > Another fifth, by contrast, think the process is too harsh. ## Orbán’s trial threat 73 percent of Tisza voters believe Viktor Orbán could face trial, with one-third of Fidesz voters also considering it likely. > Among Tisza voters, 73 percent believe there is a serious chance this will actually happen, and even one-third of Fidesz voters consider it likely that Operation Purgatory will reach all the way to Viktor Orbán. ## Key takeaway Hungary’s prime minister Péter Magyar announced new laws to protect women from domestic violence after his brother Áron Orbán was arrested for helping Vietnamese nationals enter Europe.