According to the president of the European People’s Party, democracy without the rule of law and without freedom of expression is not democracy at all.

Viktor Orbán’s “attempt to create a new ideology, which he calls illiberal democracy, is in fact an abnormal democracy,” said Donald Tusk, president of the European People’s Party, in an interview with Free Europe, in which he also spoke about the Hungarian situation.

Tusk also added that democracy without the rule of law and freedom of expression is not democracy at all. However, according to the president, similar processes can be observed in his country, Poland.

Donald Tusk was not the first to speak so critically about Viktor Orbán. The conservative Polish politician has repeatedly criticized Orban for believing that in possession of the majority, a politician is doing what he wants. The EPP electorate, at the initiative of more than a dozen member parties, decided to suspend Fidesz last March, which in practice means that the Hungarian ruling party cannot participate in the decisions, and Viktor Orbán will not be invited to the party summits.

In September, the vice president of the European Commission, Vera Jourova, spoke in a similar way to Tusk about Orbán’s conception of democracy. Then he said in an interview that Hungary is a sick democracy. In fact, he used a play on words, abbreviating illiberal democracy as “sick democracy,” which means sick democracy.

Several members of the Hungarian government, including the prime minister, have asked the vice president to resign, but he has not resigned, and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has said she trusts Jourova.


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