Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, has said the government will carry on representing Hungarian interests in 2024 "and won’t give in to blackmail”.
Minister Szijjártó said on Facebook that 2024 would be a crucial year, and “we know the pressure will be enormous”. Minister Szijjártó called 2024 “the Super Bowl of politics”. “Never before have 78 countries held elections in the span of one year, directly impacting nearly 4 billion people worldwide,” he added. Hungarian citizens will vote in the European parliamentary elections, and hundreds of millions will go to vote in the US, Russia, India, Mexico and the UK, he said. “From our point of view, the US and EU elections are particularly important, as they raise the hope of replacing war, weapon deliveries and senseless human sacrifice with brokering peace,” he said. Hungary will fight “to open Brussels’s eyes” to give the EU an opportunity to correct its errors in leadership, he said, adding that “the international liberal mainstream has always exerted enormous pressure on us, but we have always prevailed…”