Orbán praises far-right, anti-Hungarian Romanian presidential candidate, drawing criticism from Hungarian minority leader - DailyNewsHungary

The chairman of the Tisza Party writes that Viktor Orbán is now doing to the Hungarians in Transylvania, Partium and Székelyland what he previously did to the Hungarians in Transylvania and the South.

Orbán praises far-right, anti-Hungarian Romanian presidential candidate, drawing criticism from Hungarian minority leader - DailyNewsHungary

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has stirred controversy by praising Romanian presidential candidate George Simion, leader of the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), during a speech in Tihany on Friday. Speaking at the reopening of the Benedictine Abbey in Tihany, Orbán described the site as a spiritual centre of the Hungarian world. While commenting on European politics, he claimed that “the foundations of European life ar…

Hungarian – or rather Brussels – Péter no longer cares about the interests of Hungarians.

"Quite shockingly, the 1,000-year-old Tihany Abbey sent a message of support to the Romanian presidential candidate George Simion, who is an extreme Hungarian hater and previously desecrated Hungarian graves in the Úzvölgy cemetery."

Although the Hungarian Democratic Alliance in Romania warns Hungarians abroad against supporting Romanian nationalist George Simion, Viktor Orbán nevertheless quoted from the speech of the politician from the Alliance for the Unification of Romanians (AUR). In return, the AUR presidential candidate who desecrated the Hungarian war graves in Úzvölgy praised Orbán.

We cannot remain indifferent to the situation that has developed following the first round of the presidential election, wrote the representatives of the Hungarian churches in Romania in their statement issued on Friday regarding the Romanian presidential election. They stated in the statement that Romania has reached a historic watershed and that the outcome of the presidential election “will have a long-term impact on the development of the de…