According to the Prime Minister’s press officer, Orbán’s words revealed that he valued Katalin Karikó.

He called her a woman because “after all you can’t call her sir,” Viktor Orbán’s press officer replied after the RTL News he asked why the Prime Minister mentioned Katalin Karikó in his interview on Sunday. However, he also added that he said the prime minister’s words revealed that he valued the investigator.

As Vice President of BioNTech, Karikó has been involved in the development of the only coronavirus vaccine currently licensed throughout the European Union. Orbán also described the development of Pfizer / BioNTech as a Hungarian vaccine due to the person of Katalin Karikó.

the RTL According to the linguist interviewed by, woman is a condescending term and, according to the opposition, designates the social role of women.

Karikó hasn’t lived in Hungary since 1985, and because of his role in vaccine development, Philadelphia-based scientist Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist, is already proposing a Nobel Prize. You can read our interview with him by clicking here.


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