Hungary has experienced “four unjust years“, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at the last rally of the election campaign, RBK reported.
“For four unjust years, we have suffered from problems that were not our fault. It is not our fault that the war stopped the European economy. The government could have justified itself with the existing difficulties, but it did not. We did not give up on any of our goals: we raised the minimum wage by 11 percent, restored pensions for the 13th and 14th years, and exempted mothers from paying taxes. These four years were unfair, but we can be proud of them!“, he said.
Orbán called the most important question of the election whether Hungary would remain an “island of peace“. “The question of this election is also whether we will allow Hungarians to be robbed, whether a national or pro-Ukrainian government will be formed, whether we will break through Zelensky's oil blockade and whether we will fight until we achieve what Hungary deserves“, the prime minister stressed.
According to him, the country “has no colonial plans“ and Budapest, unlike Brussels, “has not taken the path of war“.
And the US, Orbán noted, “has clearly stated that it supports a government that guarantees Hungary's security“ and are not fighting “the same battles as other Western countries“, demonstrating their support for the Hungarians.
Hungary will hold parliamentary elections on April 12. Polls predict a victory for the opposition party “Tisa“, led by Péter Magyar, who just two years ago was a member of the ruling “Fidesz“ party, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. According to PolitPro data from April 11, the opposition's lead, although narrowed compared to March, is still almost 9 percentage points – 49.3% to 40.5%.
In the 2022 elections, the coalition of Fidesz and the Christian Democratic People's Party (CDPP) received just over half of the votes on party lists, but overall, thanks to its success in single-member constituencies, it holds roughly two-thirds of the seats in parliament. Viktor Orbán was prime minister from 1998 to 2002; he then took office again in 2010 and is currently serving his fourth consecutive term. A victory for Fidesz in the upcoming elections would allow him to become prime minister for a sixth term.