Historian Krisztián Ungváry said Orbán's position on the war meant the prime minister believed that ideas like national self-determination, liberty and the fight for freedom only mattered if they concerned the ruling Fidesz party.Continue reading
“War and peace is at stake in the election,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told reporters after he had cast his ballot in the national election in Budapest’s 12th district on Sunday morning.
Orbán, the head of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz, was accompanied by Anikó Lévai, his wife, and said in his answer to a question that the war between Russia and Ukraine was going to be protracted, and it was “easy to get drifted in”. “The war is in the neighbourhood, between too large countries, and we must stay out of it,” he said.
Orbán said he was convinced that their adversaries “do not feel the gravity or seriousness” of the situation and could “take steps that could involve Hungary in the conflict”.
“This would be tragic for Hungary,” Orbán said, adding that Fidesz aimed “to prevent that”.
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