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Media close to the government in Budapest reported yesterday about accusations of “fraud” in the US elections, made by US President Donald Trump, whom Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán defines as “a friend of Hungary,” reported AFP.
“Great tensions in the United States after numerous indications of fraud,” read yesterday’s headline in Origo, a major pro-government media outlet in the Central European country whose nationalist leader has been criticized for his authoritarian tendencies.
On the same day, Orbán, who described Trump as “a friend of Hungary,” said in a radio interview that “after those elections,” the United States would no longer be able to criticize other countries.
The Hungarian prime minister said that bilateral and economic relations between the United States and Hungary were at their best since Trump came to power. Orban stressed that he has always been on Trump’s side.
In 2016, Orban became the first European leader to support the candidacy of Donald Trump. He reiterated his support in September.
During Orbán’s visit to Washington, Trump introduced the Hungarian prime minister as a respected leader across Europe.
Last month, his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, targeting Hungary specifically, accused him of “embracing all the bandits in the world.”
When Biden was vice president of the Barack Obama administration, Victor Orban, who has ruled since 2010, has been accused of invading freedom of the press, judicial independence, and civil society. Some Hungarian officials have been barred from entering the United States on corruption charges, AFP reported.
