US EditionViktor Orbán backing Romanian nationalist riles up Hungarian voters
- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán supports Romanian far-right presidential candidate George Simion ahead of the 18 May election in Romania.
- Orbán's backing follows contacts between Simion's campaign envoys and the Hungarian government, stirring outrage among Hungarian voters in Transylvania who oppose Simion.
- Simion, leader of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians, promotes a nationalist, populist platform aligned with Donald Trump's MAGA movement and aims to build a Central European nationalist alliance.
- Simion expressed strong ideological alignment with the Republican Party and the MAGA movement in the U.S., describing them as their closest political partners, and labeled the annulment of Romania’s previous presidential election as a coup d'état.
- Orbán's support deepens political divisions in Hungary and Romania, leading to calls from Hungarian churches to vote against Simion and growing local opposition to Orbán's influence.
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Orbán is accused of "betrayal to Hungary"
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Tensions between AUR and Hungarian minority mark the presidential campaign in Romania
The yellow map of the vote for the leader of AUR, George Simion, in the first round, shows a clear hole in the center. They are the counties in which much of the Hungarian ethnic minority of Romania lives, in Transylvania, which historically formed part of the Kingdom of Hungary before joining Romania after the First World War, with the Treaty of Trianon, in 1920. This minority represents 6% of the population of Romania and voted mostly for Crin…
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