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Viktor Orbán says he and his followers are almost ready to take over governing the country again, in remarks circulated on X on Sunday. “I can say with certainty that we are 90% prepared to take responsibility for governing the country again at any moment. By the end of the year, that will reach 100%,” he said.
Orbán led Hungary for 16 years before Fidesz lost the election in April this year, and he has been in opposition to the current government of Péter Magyar ever since.
In the same remarks Orbán attacked the policy towards the war in Ukraine that the Magyar government is pursuing. “Hungary is no longer neutral. Today, Hungary is anti-Russian,” he said. “It has declared Russia an enemy, become pro-Ukrainian, and entered the Russian-Ukrainian war on the Ukrainian side, alongside the Germans, the French and the British. They are taking our money to Ukraine and dragging us into the war.”
Orbán said in a recent post on X that the war is not Hungary’s war and that the country’s strength was its neutrality.
As reported by Euronews, the Magyar government has made a drastic break from Orbán’s Russia policy. Hungary expelled 10 Russian diplomats on September 8, and on October 1 Moscow responded by ordering staff from the Hungarian embassy in Moscow as well as the consulates in St. Petersburg and Kazan to leave. As Euronews also reports, the Hungarian government is blocking the opening of new EU accession talks clusters with Ukraine in order to extract concessions from Kiev regarding the rights of ethnic Hungarians in the country. Prime Minister Magyar has promised “pragmatic” relations with Moscow.
Of course, it is still to be seen whether or not Orbán will be able to return to the Prime Minister’s Office. The general elections, which were held in April this year, were a resounding defeat for Fidesz, and there is currently no sign of early elections. In the above-mentioned clips, Orbán is already campaigning, but it is the war, and above all how Hungarians are being made to pay for it, that will be the mainstay of his campaign.
