The prime minister said the ruling party’s “convincing” 14-15% lead over the party in second place was a “decent result” and his party won the EP election with an advantage...
Miklós Szánthó, head of the Center for Fundamental Rights, said that counting Sunday’s local elections, Hungary’s right-wing stands at 16 election victories since 1990.
Sunday’s elections proved that “Hungary is a right-wing country”.
In a recent television interview, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán discussed the results of the European Parliament elections and their broader implications.
“Today we defeated the old opposition, the new opposition, and no matter what the opposition will be called the next time, we will defeat them again and again,” the prime minister said.
The prime minister said Hungary held two elections on Sunday, and "we have won both".
10 June 2024, Budapest
The prime minister called for national unity, saying that “on June 9, we’re only allowed to vote for peace, in the name of national unity.”
“The stakes of the election are clear: war or peace,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said.
“European institutions have allowed, either purposefully or out of negligence, Europe to drift into the Russian-Ukrainian war,” János Bóka said.
The foreign minister said that with the EP election campaign in its home stretch, the “war psychosis in Brussels has reached its peak”.
Gergely Gulyás said those on Hungary’s territory had a right to asylum and did not have to fear being turned over to Ukraine for forced conscription.
The current EU leaders have been unable to guarantee peace or prosperity, and there is war and a weakening economy instead, Máté Kocsis said.