Orbán decries von der Leyen’s and Zelensky’s new ‘Munich agreement’ to prolong Ukraine war

“Leaders in Brussels with Ursula von der Leyen at the helm on Tuesday agreed with President Zelensky on continuing the war,” the prime minister said on Facebook on Wednesday.

Hundreds of billions of euros are burnt, says Orbán

“This is bad news for Europe,” Viktor Orbán said, adding that they were prolonging a war “which obviously has no solution at the front but which involves terrible destruction”.

“Some 35,000 people die or become crippled each month while the front lines hardly move, leaving hundreds of thousands of widows, orphans, mothers mourning their sons, that is what Brussels supports,” Orbán said.

Meanwhile “hundreds of billions of euros are burnt … for nothing: this war does not cripple Russia but Europe,” the prime minister said, adding that “it also creates a risk of nuclear war, with Europe facing a nuclear power.”

Hungary can be dragged into the war

“They would drag us into it if we let them,” Orbán said, adding that opposition Tisza Party leader Peter Magyar “last week in Munich signed a secret pact with Brussels leaders with German assistance.” He insisted that Magyar would “enter Hungary among warring European countries and approve financial aid to Ukraine in exchange for support from Brussels and Kyiv.” He would “detach Hungary from cheap oil and gas”, Orbán said.

The prime minister also suggested that the deal was kept secret “so that Hungarians should not learn the truth before the election”. Tisza has “sided with Ukraine rather than the Hungarians” in the energy war, Orban said.

“Hungary must stay out of this. The Hungarian government must preserve Hungary’s security. We will accomplish that,” he said.

Hungary needs government ‘which can say no’, says the Hungarian premier

Hungary needs a government “which can say no in the current, difficult situation – when we are being pressed to give our money to Ukraine or jointly take out a loan which would be given to Ukraine and in the end troops would be stationed in Ukraine,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told a rally held at Sukoró, in western Hungary, late on Tuesday.

Orban said that the government “returns the funds collected from banks, energy companies and international chains to families in the form of reduced utility prices”. “If there comes a government which abandons this economic model there will again be misery in Hungary,” he insisted.

“We are the majority in this country,” he said, but added that the election would be decided by turnout at the polls, by “which leader can take more supporters to vote.”

Tisza party = capitalists

Orbán insisted that “a large part of Hungarians are on our side” concerning “issues of civilisation such as migration, the new constitution, the family, and war.” “We alone are ready to fight for those values, and we only, the community of right-wing civic Hungarians can protect them,” he said. “Our opponents would be unable to do so, they instantly approve any endeavour in Brussels and we’ll have the migrants … gender activists in kindergartens, and we’ll will be pushed into the war; they will take our money to Ukraine and it will be too late,” he said.

Should the opposition Tisza Party win the election, “capitalists will form a government because economic power behind the parties is interested in finding representatives to promote their own interests … especially if a patriotic government hurts them through banking, energy, and retail sector taxes,” he said. He said Tisza’s labelling itself as rightist was “a trick which will not work.”

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