Foreign Ministry summoned the Hungarian ambassador “on the carpet” on the occasion of the elections

In Kiev, protests against Budapest’s interference in local elections in Ukraine. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will discuss this with the Hungarian ambassador.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry summoned the Hungarian ambassador to Ukraine, Istvan Idyarto, on Monday, October 26, to deliver a protest note. This is reported by Evropeyskaya Pravda with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

It is noted that a protest note was delivered in connection with the events of the political campaign of Hungarian officials in favor of one of the political parties in the local elections in Ukraine on October 25, 2020.

“The Hungarian diplomat was informed of the position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the inadmissibility of making statements by Hungarian officials in public space, especially on election day, asking Ukrainian citizens of Hungarian origin to vote for the Hungarian Party, the Hungarian Cultural Society in Transcarpathia, “the ministry said.

As highlighted by the Foreign Ministry, such actions by Hungarian officials contradict Ukrainian law, which prohibits foreigners from participating in the election campaign.

The ministry called on the Hungarian side to respect Ukraine’s legislation and not take measures that indicate direct interference in Ukraine’s internal affairs and that do not correspond to the good-neighborly nature of relations between Ukraine and Hungary, the ministry said. Of Foreign Affairs.

We will recall, earlier in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, he said that Hungary resorted to the direct campaign of the Party of Hungarians of Ukraine (Hungarian Culture Society of Transcarpathia), which blatantly confirmed its direct interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine.

It later emerged that the party, for which the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was campaigning, entered the town hall.