The national board of the outgoing ruling Fidesz party has convened a congress to elect party officials on 13 June, Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch told journalists after a board meeting on Tuesday. Before the meeting, Orbán fielded multiple questions from the press. He said their campaign’s focus had been love.
According to Portfolio, the outgoing premier said today’s meeting would involve a deep analysis. He added that he would decide in May what exactly he would do for a living. He described Fidesz as the most united community in the country. He believed that Tisza had launched a hate-provoking campaign, while theirs had been based on love. He did not mention the warmongering billboard campaign started by a government-linked NGO, or the infamous AI videos they shared depicting how Hungarian men would be dragged to war in Ukraine and killed there. You can watch one of these videos, shared by the official Facebook page of Budapest Fidesz:
Orbán said Péter Szijjártó was the most successful Hungarian foreign minister and voiced his concerns about Tisza’s decision not to accept him as Deputy Speaker of Parliament.
The former premier handed in his resignation to the national board, but it refused to accept it. Therefore, Orbán remains head of the outgoing ruling party Fidesz at least until 13 June.
Both Fidesz leader Viktor Orbán and board chairman László Kövér declined to answer questions after the meeting.
Fidesz will have 44 MPs in the new parliament, while KDNP (the Christian Democratic People’s Party) will have 8. Tisza will have 141 MPs, while the far-right Mi Hazánk (Our Homeland Movement) will have 6.
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I understand that Orbán Viktor is trying to come to terms with the rejection, and, yes, their campaign, The Fidesz Campaign, was based on preservation and love of country.
That said, the Fidesz campaign was not solely about love, but, also about character destruction, because, for at least a year and a half smears and endless negative innuendoes were thrown at Magyar Péter, from every quadrant.
Certainly Magyar’s campaign was negative, because it was centered around the premise that Orbán and Fidesz had, at best, not economically potentiated the country, or, at worst, had simply ruined it with corruption and neglect.
This is quite similar to the campaign Trump waged in both 2016 and 2024, and, both times, it was a winner for him, as it was for Magyar.
It was not a winner for previous challengers to Orbán, however, so the country is ruined premise does not always sell.
He preached hatred of Ukraine, hatred of the EU, hatred of migrants, hatred of the LGBTQ community and this total POS hypocrite has the nerve to go out of power after stealing every last forint he and his cronies could get from the Hungarian people and the taxpayers of the EU and he has the nerve to say “love” was the focus of their campaign. He spent the whole campaign trying to scaremonger dim witted people under their beds with predictions of the apocalypse if people did not vote for him. What an absolute slimeball.
I forgot about Orban’s comment about the opposition being “stink bugs” that need to be removed. They have been called “vermin”, etc. Are people that short of memory that he can make these statements about “love” now? The scary part is that Orban and the rest accused the opposition of things they did not do but Fidesz was in fact guilty of and that is being “foreign agents”, “traitors”, and Katalin Novak who resigned for pardoning a pedophile protector said the opposition “would sell our children”. If you go through history you can find other examples of the worst governments and politicians vociferously accusing their opponents of doing the things that they themselves were actually doing. Fidesz is a classic example for the history books.
If this is what they call love then I’m pleased we never got to see what their wrath looks like.
Concur – Larry.
History Never Lies.
19th June 1989 = Victor Mihaly. Orban commenced his out and into openly – the wall had fallen, taking to the podium that day in Hero’s Square – he commenced his Lies to Hungarians.
Orban from his MOUTH on that day, moving on – over decades to April 2026 to witness FINALLY – his devastating and HUMILIATION of Defeat, his Rejection, no longer wanted by millions of millions of Hungarians – his LIES caught him out.
Greed, Selfishness – the Exploitation by Victor Mihaly. Orban personally and his entire Fidesz Government, his “inner sanctum” of Fidesz Ministers, the vast HIGH numbers of those “of membership” of the Fidesz Political Party and the Oligarchy = the “bleeding” the ABUSE, the Stealing undertaken under the name of Fidesz = the acquiring of wealth to families of the “inner sanctum” of Victor Mihaly. Orban no greater exampled known of the former “treasonous” Foreign Minister and of Trade – Peter Szijjarto – we Hungary our country just absolutely = used and ABUSED bleed dry by the SUPPORTERS of Victor Mihaly. Orban.
Victor Mihaly. Orban never, never never can it be Forgotten – signed off and APPROVED – that Hungarians / Hungary could be BLEED dry by his SUPPORTERS – his “inner sanctum” which we know to be of multiple number.
Hungarians / Hungary – may we individually and as a country RETRIEVE what is Rightfully ours = Calmly, Orderly.
Hungarians = we can Recover and further HUMILIATE expose the name Victor Mihaly. Orban and Fidesz = what THEY delivered upon us in millions individually over decades and what they STOLE from Us individually in millions and our country = Hungary.
May they be BOUGHT to answer for there CRIME’s commencement first in the box = Victor Mihaly. Orban.
What an absolute load of… Calling those who didn’t follow his cult of personality traitors, dividing the country and driving it into the ground, aligning with the most hateful spiteful president in US history, the brazen ethnic hatred espoused by his regime, the hatred of EU, the hatred of Zelensky and Ukrainians, the hatred of his personal boogeyman Soros, the hatred found in all the horrid propaganda , the hatred of democratic values and fairness, and the hatred of the opposition, all the while helping to make Hungarians the least trusting of their neighbors and outsiders in all the EU…. All on clear, hateful display. Now he spins it through his own demented rose colored glasses. .. I’m so glad this monster is gone.