Gergely Gulyás, Head of the Prime Minister's Office, said "common sense" is what must prevail in the June 9 European parliamentary elections, adding that one of the most important stakes in the ballot would be how strong the "pro-war forces" would be afterwards.
According to MTI, Gulyás told a regular press briefing that the government had assessed what it saw as a worsening situation in the war in Ukraine at its latest meeting. He said there were several reasons for the deteriorating situation, including the fact that Ukraine’s forces were having an increasingly hard time holding the positions that had been established in the last 1.5-2 years, and this was also the reason behind the forced conscriptions in the country. He said ethnic Hungarians were also being conscripted into the army, but Hungary was not turning over anyone to Kyiv. Those on Hungary’s territory had a right to asylum and did not have to fear being turned over to Ukraine for forced conscription, he said. Gulyás said the government considered remarks “irresponsible” that suggested a military intervention on Ukraine’s territory was necessary. He said recent remarks by Manfred Weber, the head of the European People’s Party, proposing the introduction of compulsory military service for both men and women in Europe had created “a new situation”.