In the program, Viktor Orbán and his government reached the same stage with the Chinese leadership and Erdogan’s autocratic system.

On Saturday, the Secretary of State for Communication and International Relations suggested to the editorial board of the German ZDF: “If you want to show monsters next time, look at your own country, there are a few …”.

In a Facebook post, Zoltán Kovács reacted to the fact that Viktor Orbán was portrayed as Hannibal Lecter on the German public service channel ZDF’s Heute Show entertainment program.

According to Kovács, “these demonstrations are extremely pathetic and show what the progressive, independent, objective quality press is like in some western countries.”


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