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Budapest Times
2 days ago
- Politics
- Budapest Times
Menczer: Hungarians refuse to ruin the country for the sake of Ukraine
Tamás Menczer, the Fidesz-Christian Democrats communications director, said on Monday: 'We Hungarians are not with Zelensky! We don't want to ruin our country for the sake of Ukraine!' The ruling party politician said in a post on Facebook that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky liked to quote a survey by the opposition Tisza Party suggesting that 58 percent of Hungarians backed Ukraine's EU membership. He added that Zelensky even exaggerated the polling numbers and claimed that 70 percent of Hungarians supported Ukraine. Menczer said, however, that 'we Hungarians are not with Zelensky!' 'We are providing all possible humanitarian aid and commend the heroic stand of Ukrainians, but we don't want to destroy our country for the sake of Ukraine,' he added. He insisted that Ukraine, should it acquire EU membership, would present multiple dangers. Referring to a 'plan' to cut Hungary off from Russian oil and gas, he said the price of household utilities would skyrocket. 'For us, Hungary comes first!' he said, urging compatriots to fill out the Vote 2025 ballot in the remaining five days left to do so.
Budapest Times
4 days ago
- Politics
- Budapest Times
Orbán: Opposition has the same masters
In a video posted on Facebook, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said it was all the same whether the opposition was called DK or Tisza Party, 'their masters are the same'. In a video posted by Tamás Menczer, the communications director of the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrats, on Sunday, the prime minister said strong forces had been pitted against each other: 'We Hungarian patriots on one side, and I would not underestimate us, being several million people, and Brussels on the other side. And the Hungarians who support Brussels against their own national government.' 'It does not make a difference what the powers who stand against us are called, whether DK or Tisza, Ferenc Gyurcsány or Péter Magyar, it is all the same, because the powers in the opposition are the same. They can announce a new team, they can change the flag of the team, but the real source of power behind them is the same,' he added. PM Orbán said that, not for the first time, the choice was between a puppet government, subordinate to Brussels and acting on Brussels' command, or a national government. He added that on that choice hinged government measures that Brussels wanted to see rolled back, such as pensioners' annual bonus, the power to tax multinationals and banks, and the regulated utilities price scheme for households.
