Thursday, May 04, 2023

Hungary’s Far-right PM Calls for Trump’s Return: ‘Come Back, Mr President’

THE GUARDIAN: Viktor Orbán, addressing European CPAC summit, attacks liberalism as a ‘virus’ and says his country is model for world

Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister, delivers the keynote speech in Budapest on Thursday. Photograph: Szilárd Koszticsák/EPA

The Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán has called for Donald Trump’s return to office, claiming their shared brand of hard-right populism is on the rise around the world, in a speech to US Republicans and their European allies in Budapest.

Orbán was addressing the second annual meeting of the US Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) in the Hungarian capital, aimed at cementing radical rightwing ties across the Atlantic. He said that conservatives have “occupied big European sanctuaries”, which he listed as Budapest, Warsaw, Rome and Jerusalem. He added that Vienna “is also not hopeless” .

He noted that Washington and Brussels were still in the grip of liberalism, which he described as a “virus that will atomize and disintegrate our nations”. » | Flora Garamvolgyi in Budapest | Thursday, May 4, 2023

The very last thing this world needs now is another term of office with Donal Trump at the helm. Perish the thought! – Mark