Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had telephone talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday and proposed immediate ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Immediate ceasefire
Orbán told an international press conference that he had also proposed early talks between the presidents of Russia, Ukraine and France, as well as the chancellor of Germany in Budapest to reach an agreement on the ceasefire.
Orbán said Putin’s response had been positive, but also quoted the Russian president as saying that Russia had certain conditions for a ceasefire which he should first discuss with his Ukrainian counterpart.
Orbán said Hungary’s position concerning peace in Ukraine was firm with regard to the over 200,000 ethnic Hungarians living in Transcarpathia. “Hungary is primarily responsible for those lives,” he said.
‘Fidesz-led alliance secures all-time biggest win’
The Fidesz-Christian Democrat alliance achieved its all-time best result in the general election, scoring the most votes since Hungary’s change in regime, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Budapest on Wednesday. The alliance garnered 54 percent of the votes cast, which translates into more than two thirds of parliamentary seats, he told an international press conference.
Orban attributed the victory to three factors. Firstly, Hungarians wanted peace and, in view of the war raging in their neighbourhood, backed the political force that provided a bigger guarantee for peace, the prime minister said. Secondly, Hungary is a successful country, and finally, the opponent was a “coalition for power” which is basically a “disrespectful approach” to the electorate, he said.
The ruling alliance, in turn, represented a “programme of heart and passion” in the election campaign, he said.
Orbán said the opposition had committed “the gravest insult and contempt” towards the electorate “by announcing that it is permissible even for fascists and communists to not only find their place in that coalition for power but also to retain their intellectual character”.
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Source: MTI
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Putin loves his little puppy
So Putin will listen to Orbán will he?!
Think it’s more a case of, “yes Mr Putin, of course Mr Putin, now tell me what to next……”
Ahhh, that’s why he was on the phone. Orban’s started negotiations on paying for our gas in Roubles. Or is he just doing as he’s told. Anyway, just been announced.
Mr. Anonymous,
Well, so far as I can see, you have enough food, fuel to fill your car, heating and for the industry to function, a peaceful, beautiful country to live in and everybody is free to leave it any time, if not satisfied with how the country is governed.
You are insulting the head of our country, not a very intelligent approach for criticism!
Sky News
Mixed messages on Russia from Hungarian ally
Hungary’s prime minister and long-time Russian ally Viktor Orban says he has asked Vladimir Putin to apply an immediate ceasefire.
Mr Orban, who clinched a fourth term in office on Sunday, told reporters he had invited Mr Putin for peace talks in Hungary.
The talks, he said, would be be held with the Ukrainian and French presidents as well as the German chancellor. Mr Orban said the Russian president’s response was “positive” but that Mr Putin would have conditions.
But while presenting the rhetoric of someone trying to find a solution to the crisis, Mr Orban committed to paying for Russian gas in roubles if Russia requested – a move that would to some degree aid the Russian economy.
Wasn’t Volodymyr Zelensky the comedian ?
@Cornelia – there’s no such thing as a free lunch. At some point, the bill will come and we WILL pay the price
@Cornelia, the saying is ‘if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen’. Any leader of any country can be criticised or ridiculed if that country has freedom of speech (which Hungary just about still has, but not for long, possibly). Also, who are you to tell a fellow Hungarian to ‘leave it any time’? So all people who don’t agree with you must leave? Now that, in your words is ‘not a very intelligent approach’.
@Cornelia
How is that an insult, when the government insults our intelligence every day with its propaganda. As far as I can see the ink’s barely dried on the ballot papers before Putin is starting to call in his favours. We still have free speech (just about). It’s not about living in a peaceful beautiful country, a bit of nice scenery doesn’t help us. It’s about waking up to reality. And for the first time we also have a radical far right group which has won seats in parliament. These next four years are going to be what I wonder……..