The former Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski, is an international criminal and should not be in Hungary, said Hungary's new leader Peter Magyar after his party Tisza's decisive victory over Viktor Orban's Fidesz. Magyar sharply criticized the Orban government's decision to grant political asylum to Polish politicians Zbigniew Ziobro and Marcin Romanowski, who are accused of abuse of office. He drew a direct parallel to the case of Gruevski, who also received protection in Hungary from Orban. Magyar stated that Hungary should not become a haven for international criminals and emphasized that this applies not only to the Polish politicians but also to Gruevski, whom he described as a convicted criminal. He added that other European countries should also extradite any Hungarian political criminal attempting to flee abroad, in the spirit of European cooperation. In the parliamentary elections on April 12, Orban's Fidesz suffered a crushing defeat. In the new parliament with 199 seats, Peter Magyar's formation will have 138 seats, Fidesz 55, and the pro-Russian Mi Hazank six. Gruevski, who served as prime minister from August 2006 until mid-January 2016, was sentenced to two years in prison in September 2018. A few days before his arrest on November 12, 2018, he illegally left North Macedonia, traveling through Albania, Montenegro, and Serbia. Orban granted him asylum that same November under an expedited procedure.