Hungary has repeatedly come under fire for its ties to Moscow, blocking aid to Ukraine and controversial statements toward other European Union member states.
On Tuesday, October 8, an attempt was made to attack Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Strasbourg, France, during his press conference at the European Parliament.
Marton Njekicki, a Hungarian activist and city councilor of the opposition Democratic Coalition of Hungary, tried to disrupt Orban’s press conference. At the same time, he shouted accusations at Orban that he “sold the country to China and the Russian Federation.”
So, when the prime minister spoke in the European Parliament about immigration, Njekicki ran to the podium where Orban was sitting and threw a stack of what looked like banknotes in his direction.
“How much did you sell the country, Mr. Prime Minister, did he sell it to Xi Jinping? – he shouted at once.
The Hungarian Prime Minister was not injured. Nekitski was immediately taken out of the hall.
Commenting on the incident, Orban said that “when a Hungarian politician tells others that he is a scoundrel, in our culture it just means “I don’t agree with you.”
The former Prime Minister of Hungary, head of the Democratic Coalition Ferenc Gyurcsany supported Njekicki’s action on his page on the social network Facebook.
“We have spoken: always and everywhere we will say that today there is a traitorous government in Hungary,” he wrote.
The Hungarian authorities have decided to block all decisions on an EU loan worth 35 billion euros to Ukraine until the US presidential election on November 5. Hungarian Finance Minister Mihaly Varga said this after the meeting of EU ministers in Luxembourg.
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Source: korrespondent
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