This interview statement from the politician Balazs Orbana close associate of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, sparked outrage in Hungary. Balazs Orban – no relative of the head of government – referred to the “experience” of the Hungarian uprising in 1956 that resistance to an attack only brought suffering and death.
The politician from the ruling party Fidesz, who holds the office of “political director” alongside the prime minister, called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj “irresponsible” in the YouTube video conversation with the government-affiliated portal “Mandiner”. He “led his country into a defensive war” in which many people had already died.
“Biggest political mistake of the year”
Opposition leader Peter Magyar called on Balazs Orban to resign before Hungary’s national holiday on October 23, when the Hungarian Uprising is commemorated. “With these sentences, Balazs Orban humiliated many thousands of Hungarian freedom fighters.” The political scientist Gabor Török spoke of the “biggest political mistake of the year”.
