Former Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro and his former deputy Marcin Romanowski have reportedly left Hungary for the United States after Péter Magyar was sworn in as Hungary’s new prime minister, ending Viktor Orbán’s 16-year tenure.

Ziobro, a senior figure in Poland’s conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, flew from Hungary to the United States on Saturday after securing a US visa, according to wPolsce24 television and wPolityce.pl. Notes from Poland also reported on Sunday that Ziobro had arrived in the United States after leaving Hungary, where he had been granted political asylum.

wPolityce later reported, citing its own sources, that Romanowski had also landed in the United States. Earlier, wPolsce24 editor-in-chief Jacek Karnowski said Romanowski’s legal position was different from Ziobro’s because a European Arrest Warrant had been issued for the former deputy justice minister.

Romanowski was granted asylum in Hungary in 2024 after Polish prosecutors accused him of misuse of public funds. Warsaw issued a European Arrest Warrant for him in February 2026, while Hungary refused to surrender him, arguing that the case was politically motivated and that he could not expect a fair trial in Poland.

Ziobro was later granted asylum in Hungary. Polish prosecutors accuse him of 26 offenses, including abuse of power, misuse of public funds, and involvement in an alleged criminal group. Ziobro denies wrongdoing and says the case is a political vendetta by liberal Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government.

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The reported departures come after Péter Magyar’s Tisza party defeated Orbán’s Fidesz party in Hungary’s parliamentary election, raising questions over the future of the asylum granted to the two Polish politicians.

Magyar had repeatedly signaled during the campaign that Ziobro and Romanowski would no longer be protected once his government took office. “If they’re still here when the Tisza government is formed, we will extradite them on the first day,” Magyar said at the time.

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Romanowski had warned after Fidesz’s defeat that Hungary’s election result represented a major setback for conservatives in Europe. “This conservative wave that has been sweeping across Europe in recent months — and I hope it will continue — has suffered a certain breakdown,” he said.

He also argued that voters had chosen change without necessarily considering the consequences, saying, “The Polish example may not have taught them enough that change for the sake of change is not good.”