US Vice-President JD Vance has insisted he was right to stage a two-day campaign visit to back Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán five days before he was voted out of office by opposition party Tisza's landslide victory. Insisting Orbán was a great guy who did a very good job, Vance told Fox News he was one of the few European leaders we've seen who's been willing to stand up to the bureaucracy in Brussels. While he was sad Orbán had lost, he was sure the US would work very well with the new government, he said. Péter Magyar, who led Tisza to victory, had been critical of Vance's intervention, warning last week that no foreign country may interfere in Hungarian elections. However, he stated that the US was a strong and important Nato partner and that if President Donald Trump or anyone else called him he would talk to them. Orbán will continue to run Hungary in a caretaker role until Magyar is sworn in, and the three party leaders with seats in parliament have been invited to meet President Tamás Sulyok on Wednesday. Sulyok has the task of convening Hungary's new parliament and recommending the next prime minister by 12 May, and Magyar has urged him to do that as soon as possible and then resign, calling him a puppet of Orbán's government. Magyar has suggested he could become prime minister on 5 May, or even sooner. Sulyok's office has made clear to Hungarian media he will not resign, however he is expected to discuss with the three party leaders when to convene the National Assembly and propose a new prime minister. Top of his priorities will be to unlock billions of euros in EU funding and loans that were frozen because of a variety of issues such as rule of law and democratic backsliding under Orbán. An estimated €17bn has been suspended, but Hungary is also waiting for €16bn more to be approved in defence loans. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated she had spoken to Magyar and mentioned that there was swift work to be done to... restore the rule of law [and] realign with our shared European values. Meanwhile, EU leaders are pushing for Hungary to overturn a veto imposed by Orbán on €90bn in aid to Ukraine prior to the election. Magyar has made clear he does not consider the veto to be significant, as Hungary was one of three countries that opted out of the loan to Ukraine last December. Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz emphasized that the aid to Kyiv should be released very quickly with the change of government in Hungary, and Magyar plans to make Berlin one of his first foreign destinations.