Fidesz wants foreign funds in elections to be criminalised
“Protecting Hungary’s sovereignty is our constitutional obligation, under which we must face any debate,” Máté Kocsis, the group leader of ruling Fidesz, told a conference on Monday.
Kocsis called for setting up an institution to protect the country’s sovereignty “to monitor trends indicating foreign interference”. To stop such interference, the election law should be changed “to make it clear that the same rules apply to all civil organisations and their candidates, as to the political parties” he said. Financing and accounting for their spending must be the same whether it comes to civil groups or political parties, he said.
Foreign funds in Hungarian politics have been increasingly present since Hungary joined the European Union and simultaneously with political globalisation, Kocsis said, but “there have been no earlier examples of foreign funds financing (leftist) political campaigns” in the country, he insisted.
He called for changing the penal code to criminalise accepting foreign funds as a member or candidate of an organisation participating in an election, and to penalise such activities with up to three years imprisonment.
According to Kocsis,
“there is a fundamental difference between the concept of democracy in the West and in Hungary.
They say things will often change and we say the will of the people must be promoted at all times.” While “in the west it is not democratic if voters support the same government for the fourth time . they say steadiness is dictatorship and versatility is democracy.” “They have a fundamental problem with a country in which elections are won on the basis of national values and sovereignty”.
As we told before, the Hungarian left’s European Parliament and local election campaigns are being financed from Brussels, the communications director of ruling Fidesz said, details HERE.
Orbán’s tactics failed again, PiS is angry
Kaczynski’s secret political weapon backfired. Turns out they employed Hungarian advisers for the failed campaign. At least that’s what a Polish newspaper said.
Seems like the Law and Justice (PiS) government that has been getting the most votes for the last 8 years will need even more to carry on now. Both the Sejm and the Upper House have opposition majorities. The Polish media is practically stating the change of government as a fact.
Naturally, Jaroslaw Kaczynskis’ party can still try stalling for time. To an equal degree, Andrzej Duda, president of the republic, can cause an inconvenience by entrusting the continuation to the forming of a minority government. It’s another can of worms that the next prime minister of Poland will most likely be Donald Tusk. He will govern the country as the head of a three-party coalition.
“The PiS has had better days: the party is trying to place the responsibility of this colossal failure. Names are being mentioned, including some who are advisers to the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.”
comments the Polish newspaper Polytika.
After the resignation of Tomasz Poreba, the ruling party’s election guru, the campaign landed in the hands of Joachim Brudzinski. He is a representative of the EP and has quite conservative views. It is said that this change of staff opened the door for the party advisers of Viktor Orbán. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, president of PiS, believed that the increased staff and Hungarian ideas will lead to victory.
The newspaper doesn’t say from whom exactly the party got their information, but the PiS argument was that they can use the Hungarian model with a little bit of translating and integrating. According to Polytika, representatives of Fidesz were never personally present. However, they held sway in the development of the campaign.
“They did whatever they wanted. Morawiecki’s people reasoned that they would help us win third mandate, and to do so, we would just have to adapt what worked for them,” a source told the paper. However, the Hungarians had not taken into account the specificities of the Polish electoral system and the public mood.
That’s how the Polish ruling party’s campaign focus points included a referendum against the compulsory resettlement of migrants. This referendum was, coincidentally, held on the same day as the elections. You can read more about it HERE.
This idea might ring a bell to our Hungarian readers, since in 2022, there was also a referendum on election day, only the topic was ‘child protection’.
The Hungarians also persuaded the PiS campaign advisers to give Donald Tusk a run for his money. According to the PiS allied politicians, this also backfired. They state that it only motivated those rooting for the opposition to mobilise.
The disillusioned PiS campaign advisers put the blame on Jaroslaw Kaczynski as well. “He agreed to the expanding of the staff and honestly believed that Orbáns’ advisers would bring him success. It’s a pity he wasn’t surrounded by people who would’ve told him this couldn’t work in our country.”
Opposition turns to top court on election law amendment
The opposition Párbeszéd party has gathered enough signatures from MPs allowing it to turn to the Constitutional Court with the request that it review the Fidesz party’s amendment to the election law with regard to procedures and the local councils the ruling party submitted a few weeks ago, Párbeszéd’s group leader said on Sunday.
Tímea Szabó told an online press briefing that whereas various aspects of electronic administration were altered under the amendments, others fundamentally changed how local council elections are held.
One such is that local council by-elections cannot take place until scheduled municipal elections are held, she said.
Also, in settlements of more than 10,000 inhabitants, parties can only establish a list if their candidates are nominated in at least two-thirds of the individual districts, she added.
Szabó said these amendments were unconstitutional in various ways.
Already, she added, elections cannot be held due to “Fidesz restrictions” in 10 settlements and the rights of voters were being harmed.
Párbeszed to appeal to CCourt over ‘public hearings without audience’
The opposition Parbeszed-Greens party has said that it will turn to the Constitutional Court to appeal for scrapping a government decree that allows for public hearings to be held without an audience.
Párbeszed co-leader Bence Tordai told an online press conference on Monday that the government had used Hungary’s special legal order introduced earlier with regard to the war in Ukraine to overrun relevant regulations “and even the constitution itself” concerning “a matter totally unrelated to the war or its impacts”. He added that the government “had no authorisation” to do so.
The new institution is a “bad joke … legal nonsense”, Tordai said and insisted that local governments led by ruling Fidesz intended to put in practice public hearings that the public could not attend. The new mechanism “obviously violates fundamental democratic rights,” he said, adding that public hearings “are the second strongest instrument of participatory democracy after referenda”.
As we wrote today, leading parties draft laws to prevent Hungarian parties from receiving funding from abroad, details HERE.
Leading parties draft law to prevent Hungarian parties from receiving funding from abroad
The rules on campaign financing are being currently reviewed with the aim to prevent influencing the Hungarian elections from abroad, István Simicskó, group leader of the co-ruling Christian Democrats, said in an interview published in daily Magyar Nemzet on Monday.
Current law defines “any interference in Hungary’s internal affairs” as an unlawful act, Simicskó told the paper, adding that “we are going to prepare an amendment that will contain much tighter rules”.
Parliament’s national security committee has tasked the National Information Centre “to conduct a thorough investigation of the scandalous affair of “rolling dollars” which involves exploring the ways of foreign funding channelled illegally to the opposition left for their campaign in last year’s general election,” he noted.
As regards further legislation plans for parliament’s autumn season, Simicskó said the child protection law would also be tightened, calling it an important duty “to protect our children”.
Further bills will also be submitted with the aim to tighten public safety and clamp down on money laundering, he said, adding that bills on transport, agriculture, labour protection and asset management would also be tabled.
As we wrote earlier, Hungary’s state auditor has had to delay its report on the campaign financing of parliamentary parties owing to doubts over the legality of receipts and other documentation connected with the opposition formation Everybody’s Hungary Movement (MMM), details HERE.
ÁSZ head: Opposition parties’ fine over foreign campaign financing ‘as yet undecided’
The State Audit Office (ÁSZ) has yet to decide regarding a fine imposed on opposition parties for accepting foreign campaign donations ahead of last year’s general election, the head of ÁSZ told MTI on Tuesday.
László Windisch reacted to press reports suggesting that the six parties running on a joint list could be fined HUF 3.2 billion (EUR 8.6m) in total.
ÁSZ launched an investigation into the matter in March, on suspicions that the donations had constituted unlawful party financing and that the opposition parties had violated Hungarian election law by accepting them.
Windisch confirmed that ÁSZ had sent a draft of its partial report to the parties, adding that the sum of the fine would be set on the basis of a report being currently prepared by the tax and customs authority.
He noted that ÁSZ had initiated consultations with the opposition parties before concluding its final report.
ÁSZ has no powers to levy a fine or issue a ruling, and legal consequences of their investigations are defined by the relevant legislation, Windisch said. At the same time, ÁSZ has the right and obligation to define the amount the parties had received in unlawful party financing, he said. “Details can be discussed after [the report] has been published, ÁSZ will not react to partial information circulated by the press,” Windisch added.
Orbán: Erdogan opponent a ‘Soros man’, would have been a tragedy if he had won
It would have been a “tragedy” had Recep Tayyip Erdogan not won Türkiye’s elections, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on public radio on Friday, adding that Erdogan’s opponent, a “Soros man”, would have “released four million refugees in Turkiye onto Europe”.
Orbán said Erdogan’s re-election had been a “great relief” for him, adding that he had prayed a lot for his victory. Had Erdogan’s opponent won, “one, two, or three million refugees … would appear at the Hungarian border before the end of this summer,” he said.
Orbán also said Hungary received its Russian gas supplies through Türkiye, and that country having a “pro-American leader or one supported by George Soros” would make it “strongly doubtful if the gas could reach Hungary or Serbia”.
Erdogan’s losing the election would have “given Türkiye a pro-war president”, the prime minister said, adding that “the ramifications would be unforeseeable”. Erdogan has a chance to mediate between Ukraine and Russia, as he earlier mediated over Ukraine’s grain exports, Orbán said.
Forint weakening may start today
The Hungarian forint has been strengthening for months after the historic lows against the euro and USD last year-end when the exchange rate even exceeded the psychological barrier of 430/EUR. Will those days return next week?
As we wrote yesterday, the Hungarian forint has become one of the foreign investors’ favourite currencies. It can be explained by the forint’s significant strengthening since end-2022. The currency exchange rate stands around 370/EUR, an annual record. And the Bank of America expects the forint to continue to move on that track. By the end-2024, they project a 360/EUR exchange rate.
However, they also admitted in their most recent analysis that the forint is still among the most vulnerable currencies. The American bank crisis early this year also took a heavy toll on forint. Despite the previous strengthening trend and the high interest rates the central bank introduced to protect the national currency, the forint started to fall as a result of the bad news.
The Turkish elections may have a significant effect on the forint
Let’s examine what today’s presidential and parliamentary elections in Türkiye may bring to us. According to portfolio.hu, the most pressing question is whether Erdogan retains his presidency and majority in the parliament or loses one or both. The opposition is united in Türkiye, but the inflation is skyrocketing, the economy is under central control, and the Turkish lira lost 95 percent of its value in the last 1.5 years. Thus, economic prospects are gloomy. However, uncertainty is a more considerable problem. Pollsters say the two presidential candidates have 50-50 percent, so it might occur there will be a second round on 28 May, increasing uncertainties.
Regardless of the results, there will be significant changes in the currency exchange markets today. Since the forint is vulnerable, any changes initiated by the Turkish elections may affect it seriously. And recovery can be a long and challenging process. Portfolio.hu argues that markets prefer Erdogan to leave, which could mark liberal economic reforms, the strengthening of the Turkish lira and the return of foreign capital previously impeded by Erdogan’s unorthodox policies.
Fidesz would win by an even greater percentage now than a year ago
Fidesz would win an even bigger victory than it did a year ago with the same support (52 percent) if parliamentary elections were held on Sunday, as the combined opposition (30 percent) would perform even worse, according to the results of a survey by think tank Társadalomkutató, sent to MTI on Thursday.
The survey, conducted between March 27 and 29 by interviewing 1,000 people by phone, shows that, one year on, the governing parties still enjoy the support of every other voter and would be able to repeat their victory in the 2022 election.
Support for the opposition parties of the former left-wing alliance, which won 36 percent of domestic votes in 2022, has dwindled further, to 30 percent in the survey, the analysts added.
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The parties of the alliance show a mixed picture: strongest among them is the Democratic Coalition, with 12 percent of voter support, followed by Momentum with 6 percent and Jobbik with 4 percent. They are followed by LMP with 3 percent, the Socialist Party with 2 percent and Párbeszéd with 1 percent, all falling short of the support necessary for entering parliament. Péter Márky-Zay’s Everybody’s Hungary People’s Party, which has officially become a political party since the 2022 election, only enjoyed the support of 2 percent of those interviewed in the survey.
Voters who left the former left-wing alliance presumably back other parties now: the Hungarian Two-tailed Dog Party, with its current support of 10 percent, would clearly cross the threshold for parliamentary entry.
The radical right-wing Mi Hazánk party has further improved its 6 percent election result; if elections were held on Sunday, 8 percent of voters would back them, according to the survey.
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Two-thirds victory for the opposition in Jászberény
Opposition candidate Lóránt Budai won a huge victory in Sunday’s by-election in Jászberény, with the opposition alliance’s candidate winning in ten out of ten individual districts.
With a turnout of nearly 60% (59.75%), the right-wing mayoral candidate for Közösen Jászberényért received more than twice as many votes as Orsolya Besenyi, who was supported by Fidesz but called herself independent.
In all ten single-member constituencies, the candidate of the Joint Party for Jászberény won, with all opposition parties (Jobbik, MSZP, Momentum and the All Hungary Movement) except DK participating in the alliance.
In the newly constituted body of representatives, including the mayor, there will be 11 members of the Közösen Jászberényért association, while Fidesz-KDNP won four seats from the compensation list. The Mi Hazánk Mozgalom (Our Homeland Movement) did not make it into the board.
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MEP Gyöngyösi: Hard times coming for US parties
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MEP Márton Gyöngyösi’s (Non-attached) thoughts via press release:
The recent US midterm elections seem to have upset the existing trends. However, their significance reaches far beyond that, as they might actually mark the end of Trumpism and right-wing populism as we know it. The question is how the Republican Party will react to the latest developments. No matter what happens though, Democrats are going to fall in hard times, too.
It’s been a long-held belief that the US midterms typically weaken the incumbent president’s party. While the Democrats have indeed lost their majority in the House of Representatives, the Republicans’ results were far from a landslide victory. In fact, they were quite poor.
Even though there were plenty of reasons for a change to happen, neither the difficulties of the past years nor Joe Biden’s less than charismatic performance gave any reason to predict such a good result for the Democrats.
American conservative voters seem to have punished the Republican Party for Donald Trump’s policies – the candidates endorsed by the former president were unable to win in even the traditional strongholds of their party. In the meantime, a new challenger, Florida governor Ron DeSantis appeared on the scene. He has been able to represent issues undertaken by Trump without the ex-president’s unsavoury character traits – and quite successfully, too.
So the Republican Party is now facing the biggest question of the near future: should they stick to the certainly charismatic but rather polarizing Trump or should they choose a new face to run in the next presidential elections?
While the Republicans are in for some tense moments finding their best candidate, the Democrats are to face a decision that is perhaps even more difficult: who should succeed Joe Biden?
The current president is unlikely to carry another term through. On the other hand, the Democrats hardly have an abundance of potential candidates who could represent a moderate or integrative policy.
Either way, the American political discourse is to face a highly exciting period, while the parties must find the way to efficiently voice their own identity and values – as well as the best politicians to represent them.
Disclaimer: the sole liability for the opinions stated rests with the author(s). These opinions do not necessarily reflect the official position of the European Parliament.
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Kazakh President Tokayev wins re-election
The current Kazakh President, Kassim-Jomart Tokayev, came out on top in Sunday’s snap elections, winning 81.31 percent of the vote, Kazakhstan’s Central Election Commission (CEC) said on Monday, citing preliminary data.
According to Helló Magyar, the electoral commission has confirmed the overwhelming victory of the People’s Coalition candidate. The results, based on preliminary data, are as follows:
K. Tokayev – 81,31 %
Zh. Dayrabaev – 3,42 %
K. Abden – 2,6 %
M. Kazhyken – 2,53 %
N. Auesbaev – 2.22 %
S. Tursynbekova – 2.12%
“Historic day”
“Today is a very important, historic day. We are voting for the bright future of our country. This year has not been easy, but our people have united and overcome all difficulties. We now face very ambitious goals and tasks. We have a lot of work ahead of us. Political reforms are underway,”
Tokayev said on election day.
The country is undergoing political reforms and the next parliamentary elections will be the freest in the country’s history:
“We have talked about new parties being registered. This process is ongoing… I believe that before the parliamentary elections, some parties will be able to meet the necessary conditions and will be registered. I believe that this is in our interest,” Tokayev said, noting that if elected, he would announce the date for parliamentary elections at the end of the year, The Astana Times reports.
He also spoke about foreign policy, saying that while he was Russia’s ally in many cases, President Tokayev repeatedly condemned Russia’s aggression in the war in Ukraine and called on the Russian president to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Yesterday, he said that, given Kazakhstan’s complex geostrategic situation, foreign policy should have taken into account the fact that its economy attracted more than $300 billion in foreign direct investment and that the world’s largest multinationals operated in its market
“I have often said that Kazakhstan must be committed to the UN Charter and pursue a peaceful foreign policy,”
added Tokayev.
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Hungarian opposition proposes amending law to prevent foreign funding in election campaigns
A lawmaker of opposition Jobbik has proposed amending the law on associations in order to prevent foreign funding being funnelled into election campaigns through Hungarian NGOs.
Zoltán Sas told a press conference that in public poistions, politicians’ main task is to represent Hungarian interests and “this can only be done free of external influence”. Politicians accepting foreign funding is “in itself a national security concern”, but also affects their political credibility, Sas said. He said he expected the amendment of the law to increase the transparency and purity of politics in Hungary while reducing foreign influence.
He also said that the current law on regulating foreign political influence is not sufficient because whereas parties are banned from accepting donations from beyond the borders, there is no such restriction for NGOs pursuing political activities. The aim is not to prevent NGOs from getting funding from abroad but to ensure that such monies are not channeled to parties and politicians.
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Hungarian parliament elected head election body
Veteran election official Róbert Sasvári has been elected to head Hungary’s National Election Committee (NVB) to serve a nine-year term.
Zoltán Lehel on Monday was elected as his deputy.
The committee’s members elected in 2013 saw their terms expire on Sept. 30.
President Katalin Novák made the appointments after parliament voted with a two-thirds majority to put names forward for the new committee.
Orbán welcomes win of right-wing coalition in Italy
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the leaders of Italy‘s right-wing coalition have been in contact since Sunday, when the coalition led by Giorgia Meloni of the Brothers of Italy party won the general elections.
In a message to prime minister-designate Meloni, Orbán said her party’s victory was a triumph for Christian-conservative values “at the root of our cooperation and friendship”.
Reliable partnerships are especially valuable in times of strife, Orbán said, referring to the war in Ukraine. “I’m looking forward to our future cooperation aimed at preserving peace of in countries and in Europe, relaunching the European economy and handling the energy crisis,” the message said.
Orbán welcomed the coalition’s success in a Facebook post earlier, saying Meloni “more than deserved the victory.”
Orbán also congratulated League party leader Matteo Salvini and the head of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi.
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Fidesz to propose holding EP, municipal elections on same day
A proposal on holding the European parliamentary and municipal elections in Hungary on the same day will be submitted to lawmakers next Tuesday, Máté Kocsis, ruling Fidesz’s group leader, has said.
Holding the two elections in 2024 on the same day is expected to save 9-10 billion forints (EUR 23-25m) and will require amending the constitution,
Kocsis said.
The Fidesz group will also table proposals regarding rules for MPs joining and quitting a parliamentary group and on reducing the length of parliamentary speeches, he said.
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Polish and Slovak prime ministers: Hungary’s neutrality is outrageous!
Slovak PM Eduard Heger and Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki both criticised Hungary in recent days. The two leaders criticised Hungary’s position on the war in Ukraine. The two leaders of V4 member countries said Hungary’s opposition to sanctions against Russia was outrageous.
Criticism from the allies
Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger wants tougher sanctions against Russia over the war against Ukraine. Heger held talks with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in the Slovak town of Stara Lubovna. The Polish head of state agreed with his Slovak counterpart.
In other words, Poland and Slovakia are disappointed by the Hungarian attitude.
Hungary is not willing to supply arms to Ukraine. In addition, military units carrying weapons are not allowed to transit through Hungary.
Morawiecki says it is outrageous that Hungary and Germany are protesting against sanctions against Russia.
These remarks show that the gap between Hungary and the other countries in the Visegrád Four is widening, portfolio.hu reports. While Hungary remains neutral, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia are supplying Ukraine with heavy weapons. The Russian-Ukrainian war could easily drive a wedge between the allies.
Slovenia as the last ally?
Slovenia’s Prime Minister Janez Jansa is a conservative SDS politician and a great ally of Viktor Orbán. However, Slovenia holds parliamentary elections on 24 April.
Jansa may be replaced precisely because of his good relationship with Orbán.
Napi.hu reports that the latest opinion polls show that the centre-left party Slovoda is slightly more likely to win than SDS. Many voters fear the “Hungarisation” of Slovenia. This means that Jansa is ignoring criticism and influences the independent media. Slovenia’s GDP and labour market have returned to pre-coronavirus levels. Thus, analysts say that a crucial policy question could be what pattern the country wants to follow.
“If SDS wins the election, the Slovenian media could become similar to what the current Hungarian media is like,”
said Uros Esih, a journalist for the daily Delo. If Jansa does not win the election, Hungary will have one less ally in the European Union.
Hungary Election 2022: Many more Hungarians with dual citizenship registered to vote than in 2018
The number of Hungarians with dual citizenship registering for Sunday’s election was much higher than in 2018, Árpád János Potápi, state secretary for ethnic Hungarian communities, told a press conference on Monday.
According to the official figures, 456,129 Hungarians with no permanent residency in Hungary registered to vote, 78,000 more than for the election four years ago, he said. The National Election Office (NVI) has so far received 307,202 votes, 34,653 posted directly, while most came via representative offices in neighbouring countries, he said, adding that the numbers were not final. He added that
the number of mail-in votes were up over 40,000 compared with the 2018 election.
Potápi congratulated István Pásztor, leader of Serbia’s ethnic Hungarian VMSZ party, for its “nice results” in Serbia’s elections held also on Sunday.
Pásztor welcomed the outcome of the Hungarian election, saying the fact that the next government will be formed by the Fidesz-Christian Democrat alliance was “crucial” for Vojvodina (Délvidék) Hungarians. He said
he “would be surprised if the ruling parties’ support were below 95 percent” in Vojvodina, adding that 20 percent of all mail-in votes by had come from Vojvodina.
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Clinton, Mark Ruffalo, Ronaldinho encourage Hungarians to vote
American actor Mark Ruffalo and American politician Hillary Clinton are urging Hungarians to vote. From the point of democracy, both believe that the Hungarian parliamentary elections are important.
Hillary Clinton sent a message to the Hungarians
Hillary Clinton, an American Democrat politician and former First Lady and Secretary of State, urges Hungarians to go to vote on her Twitter account. Clinton wants to encourage as many Hungarian voters as possible to attend the Hungarian parliamentary elections.
Clinton attaches great importance to the fight against dictatorship and the defence of freedom and democracy. This is especially crucial now during the Russian-Ukrainian war.
“Putin’s invasion of Ukraine underscores the need to fight autocracy and defend free, democratic societies. The Hungarian elections on April 3 are an opportunity to reaffirm democracy. Hungarians in Hungary, the U.S., and elsewhere: Go vote!“
writes Hillary Clinton on her Twitter page.
Many celebrities are interested in the Hungarian election
Not only Hillary Clinton shows interest in the Hungarian election. Several celebrities sent messages to the Hungarian electorate. John Cleese, a former member of the Monty Python group, also wrote about the election on his Twitter page, index.hu writes.
The comedian draws voters’ attention to the importance of the election by mentioning the Russian-Ukrainian war situation.
Golden-Globe Award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo also sent a message to the Hungarians. Ruffalo believes that people in Hungary are presented with an incredible opportunity on Sunday.
“My friends in Hungary: On Sunday, you have an incredible opportunity. You can choose freedom, hope, inclusion and peace. The right to choose is a blessing. And it’s power. Please use your power and help everyone you know use it too,“
writes the actor according to 24.hu. Not only politicians and actors but also athletes are concerned about the fate of the Hungarian election. The 2022 Hungarian parliamentary election is also important for the Brazilian former footballer Ronaldinho.
Ronaldinho sent a message to the Megoldás Mozgalom (Solution Movement).
The Ballon D’or winner footballer wishes the party success in the election. He previously said: “change is needed in Hungary.” Ronaldinho sent the following message to György Gattyán, the founder of the movement. “Dear my friends, Gyuri and Viktor, you are true examples as sports leaders. We were brought together as friends by the love of sport. I’m with you now, and fully support you. A big hug and good luck with MeMO!”