Brussels is trying to instruct the Hungarian people on who to vote for, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in an interview with public radio “Lajos Kossuth“, quoted by the national news agency MTI, BTA reports.
“This also applies to the Hungarian case. Brussels has no right to tell the people who to vote for, how to live and what position to take on important issues. This is an abuse of power“, Orban stressed.
According to him, European institutions rely on “huge amounts of money, diplomatic influence, media power and the help of their agents in individual countries“ to interfere in the internal policies of member states. Orban said the EU no longer hides its intentions, even during national elections.
The prime minister also commented on the domestic situation in Hungary, saying that some people "accept insults as normal," and criticized those who mock the results of the latest government referendum on Ukraine's EU membership, in which 2.3 million Hungarians participated.
"We cannot talk to each other like that," Orban concluded.