Zoltán Kovács, State Secretary for International Communication and Relations, has slammed financier George Soros for “political profiteering”.
Commenting on a Soros interview published by Project Syndicate’s blog, as well as an article by Guy Verhofstadt calling Prime Minister Viktor Orbán a populist and a dictator, Kovács wrote on Facebook that "it is interesting to call someone a dictator for placing the decision on ending the state of emergency into the hands of parliament. That the majority in that parliament is held by parties not to [the authors’] taste is a democratic decision of the Hungarian people.”
Verhofstadt, a group leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) in the European Parliament, compared the Hungarian law on the protection efforts against the novel coronavirus to Hitler’s Enabling Act of 1933.
“What they brand as populism can be defined with Abraham Lincoln’s words: of the people, by the people, for the people,” Kovács said. Meanwhile, Soros is proposing perpetual bonds to handle the economic fallout after the coronavirus pandemic, a tool that would “plunge his professed homeland, Europe, deep into debt," he added.