Re-elected “Orbán-adversary” von der Leyen may come to Hungary this autumn

Péter Magyar, whose Tisza Party has become the second biggest Hungarian political community after the 9 June European parliamentary elections and is now leading the Hungarian opposition, invited Ursula von der Leyen to Hungary.

Von Der Leyen may come to Hungary to deny “Fidesz propaganda’s lies”

According to his Facebook post, Magyar, Zoltán Tarr, the leader of Tisza’s EP group, and the later re-elected European Commission head had a pleasant conversation in Brussels yesterday early afternoon. Magyar said he invited von der Leyen to an official visit to Hungary this autumn to meet Hungarian people personally.

In her response, von der Leyen said she would come happily to Hungary to inform Hungarians about her work for Europe and Hungary. “A personal visit would allow denying the Fidesz propaganda lies related to her”, Magyar highlighted.

Photo: FB/Magyar Péter

Fidesz: Von der Leyen makes ‘political deal’ in order to be reelected

Ursula von der Leyen has made “a political deal with the European Parliament’s pro-war majority in order to be reelected” European Commission president, Tamás Deutsch, MEP of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz, told a press conference in Strasbourg on Thursday.

“There has been a clear political pact; the EP’s pro-war majority expects von der Leyen to attack [Hungarian PM] Viktor Orban’s peace mission as sharply as possible in return for their votes,” Deutsch said.

Photo: FB/Tamás Deutsch

Deutsch criticised the opposition Tisza party’s MEPs Peter Magyar and Istvan Tarr for having made “an oath of allegiance” to “pro-war and pro-migrant” von der Leyen, who he said was “further amplifying the gender frenzy”, and insisted that Hungary’s “dollar left” and its “new opposition” were now acting as “Brussels’s humble servants”.

Europe is now weaker, the MEP believes

Asked if Russia’s attack on a children’s hospital in Kyiv just the day after Orbán visited Moscow had cast a shadow on the prime minister’s “peace mission”, Deutsch said “we hope proactive steps taken in order to achieve peace will be successful and such tragedies can be prevented; with no war, there will be no victims.”

Kinga Gál, another MEP of Fidesz, said the Patriots for Europe group had not supported von der Leyen’s reelection. “Europe is now weaker than five years ago, partly as a result of von der Leyen’s decisions,” Gál said. “She does nothing for peace and Europe is getting closer to a conflict. She has forced the migration pact to be adopted rather than protecting the EU’s external borders. She has failed to protect our children and she now continues to promote gender ideology. Through her extreme green policies she has in fact destroyed farmers, weakened Europe’s competitiveness, not to mention the sanctions policy which has impacted the energy security of the whole of Europe.”

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