Hungary's former Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has resigned from parliament to join Chinese EV giant BYD in a senior global role, effective immediately. Szijjártó — one of Orbán's closest allies and the face of Hungary's pro-China foreign policy for over a decade — will lead BYD's external relations and new business development at the group level. He was the key political facilitator behind BYD's massive Hungarian investments: an electric bus factory in Komárom, Europe's first BYD passenger car plant in Szeged, and a European HQ and R&D center in Budapest — all backed by significant state subsidies. Fidesz is framing it as "the most significant Hungarian corporate leadership position in the world." New PM Péter Magyar called it what it looks like: "From now on the actual employer pays him, not Hungarian taxpayers."