Ukraine started to harshly interfere in Hungarian elections, says the Orbán cabinet

Ukraine has started to harshly interfere in the Hungarian elections because they want a government which would say yes to Brussels concerning the war but the Hungarian government will continue to protect the country and its people and will not let Hungary getting dragged into war, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Friday in reaction to his Ukrainian counterparts’ entry on X.

Ukraine harshly interferes in the Hungarian elections

The foreign ministry said in a statement that Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha had reacted to remarks by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán made on the previous day according to which “there will not be a parliament in Hungary for the next 100 years that would vote in favour of Ukraine joining the European Union”.

Sybiha said “this plan is doomed to fail, Mr. Prime Minister. Your master in Moscow won’t last 100 years even if you were ready to donate him all organs. And on the day Ukraine joins the EU, we will frame this headline in @ua_parliament to remember your lies for the next 100 years”.

Szijjártó said in response that the Ukrainians had clearly begun to interfere in the Hungarian elections. “The Ukrainians have clearly shifted gears and begun to interfere very harshly and directly in the Hungarian election campaign. Yesterday, President Zelenskiy (…) had nothing more important to do in Davos than to criticise the Hungarian prime minister in a vulgar, personal style, and today his foreign minister continued in the same vein,” he said.

“Obviously, they would like to see a government formed after April 12 that says yes to Brussels on the war and allows Brussels to push Hungary into the war, and allows the Ukrainians to drag Hungary into the war,” Szijjártó said.

We will not allow the Ukrainians to drag us into war

“The Ukrainians know full well that as long as there is a sovereign, national government in Hungary, as long as Viktor Orbán is prime minister, we will protect Hungary and the Hungarian people from war, we will not allow the Ukrainians to drag us into war, we will not allow Brussels to push us into war, and we will not allow Hungarian people’s money to be sent to Ukraine,” he continued.

“It is obvious that Zelenskiy and his foreign minister are also keen to get their hands on Hungarian people’s money, which we are sending to Ukraine for a corrupt state war machine,” he added.

We also covered in a separate article that the Orbán cabinet is set to launch a national “Brussels, we won’t pay” petition. Probably that is why Zelensky and Orbán harshly criticized each other in Davos.

“As long as they see us, nothing will come of it. We strongly urge the Ukrainians to stop interfering in the Hungarian election campaign. We know full well that they want to see Tisza in government, but it is not they, not the Ukrainians, but the Hungarian people who will decide this, and the Hungarian people have the opportunity to continue to choose security, to continue to elect a government that makes decisions on a sovereign basis, and to elect a government that will protect Hungary from war and say no to Brussels and no to Kyiv,” he concluded.