Ahead of a critical election for his future, far-right and pro-Kremlin Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, seeks to attract support from anti-EU leaders across the continent and beyond it. On Monday, a “bunch” of far-right and right-wing extremist leaders will gather in Budapest to express their support for the authoritarian prime minister of Hungary. Among them will also be the nationalist and pro-Trump Polish President Karol Nawrocki.
In a Saturday post on X, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski, noted that the person the Polish president will meet on Monday is “the same one who is blocking the 20th sanctions package against Russia and the return of 2 billion zlotys for equipment that the Polish Army transferred to Ukraine.”
Sikorski emphasised that Orbán’s electoral campaign is based on “scaring people with an alleged invasion by Ukraine, in which a special GRU team supports him.
Sikorski also notes that President Nawrocki’s visit puts him in the company of “such Putin cheerleaders as Matteo Salvini and Marine Le Pen.”
“Mr. President, please take an interest in why Orbán’s nationalism and thievery have caused Hungary to become the poorest country in the European Union,“ emphasised the Polish vice prime minister, and asked Nawrocki: “Is that what you wish for Poland?”
Today, Prime Minister Donald Tusk posted a comment on X suggesting that “President Nawrocki’s participation in the Budapest meeting of pro-Russian and Eurosceptic politicians is a fatal mistake and confirmation of a dangerous strategy to weaken the European Union and strengthen Putin.”
