New Delhi, May 17 -- Hungary's new Prime Minister Peter Magyar on Friday personally removed fencing around a historic building in the capital Budapest that served as the office of his autocratic predecessor Viktor Orban.

Magyar announced that the famous Karmelita, located at Budapest's landmark Castle Hill, overlooking the Danube river, will be open for public until authorities decide on its future role.

The former Catholic monastery become a symbol of Orban's rule after he had it cordoned off in 2021.

"There is no place for cordons in Hungary after the change of regime," Magyar told reporters as he symbolically pushed open the fences. He said the institutions had been built "from the money of the Hungarian taxpayers and made so beauti...