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Hungary After Orbán. Winning Power Is Easier Than Limiting It
12 May 2026
Poland’s wanted former justice minister and his deputy got an airlift to America by the MAGA circles. The case for saving the fugitives from ‘lawfare and persecution’, however, is built on shaky grounds.
The escape happened after Péter Magyar became Hungary’s PM on a platform that included extraditing Law and Justice (PiS) fugitives Zbigniew Ziobro and Marcin Romanowski on the first day of his government.
Ziobro confirmed his presence in the United States during an interview broadcast by Polish television station TV Republika on 10 May 2026. The station simultaneously announced it had hired him as its US-based political commentator. The ex-justice minister faces 26 criminal charges in Poland drawn from the National Prosecutor’s Office investigation into the operation of the Justice Fund during the PiS government. The charges include leading an organised criminal group inside the Ministry of Justice, illegal public funding of political activities and ordering the purchase of Pegasus spyware from Justice Fund money allegedly used to surveil opposition politicians. Polish prosecutors put the misappropriation at around 35.4 million euros.
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