In the parliamentary elections in Hungary has won the ruling coalition
He also dismisses Hungary being ranked the EU’s second-most corrupt country by Transparency International.
Far-right parties cheered Monday after Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban handily won re-election, while moderates offered business-like congratulations and rights groups voiced fears over his anti-immigrant stance.
Much of this is triggered by their opposition to the EU’s refugee policy and their campaign on a nationalist agenda which advocates more sovereignty rather than “more Europe”.
Beatrix von Storch from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) said it was a “bad day for the European Union and a good one for Europe”.
This will be Orban’s third term in office.
The promise to move swiftly against worldwide NGOs highlighted the growing European Union divisions over Viktor Orban, the controversial Hungarian prime minister, who has repeatedly attacked Brussels for its handling of the 2015 refugee crisis and the imposition of mandatory migrant quotas. They view the strongman as Europe’s most accomplished progenitor of the type of illiberal democracy to which they aspire.
Orban has been using Soros and his causes as a political punching bag, even going so far as claim that there were activists that were actively being paid by Soros.
In Poland, whose government like Budapest has clashed with Brussels over worries about the rule of law, right-wing Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki wished Orban success “for Hungary and for Europe”.
In their eyes, his commanding victories are testimony that Europe’s citizenry desire nativist, law-and-order societies.
Hungary’s anti-immigration governing party has scored a sweeping victory in the general election held on Sunday. This comparison was noted in an article in the Washington Post on September 5, 2015 headlined, “Hungary’s prime minister becomes Europe’s Donald Trump”.
Orban is a strong Eurosceptic who campaigned on an anti-immigration platform.
In his controversial speech, Orban said that Europe faces a divide between nations of the East and the West, which he called an “immigrant zone, a mixed population world that heads in a direction different from ours”. A supermajority, which will allow him to change the constitution, may encourage him to deepen his conflicts with his European peers and further overhaul Hungary’s democratic institutions.
Fidesz improved its score on proportionate party lists by winning 49.1% of the votes cast against 44.9% in the 4-year election.
The election campaign was dominated by immigration, with Orban promising to defend the country’s borders and block migration by Muslims.
The government spokesman made that very clear during the wait for Sunday’s election results. It’s not surprising since it has dominated the airwaves for eight years and opposition voices in the media are so marginal that they are nearly irrelevant.
Observers say a divide within the EU will progress if Orban further criticizes the EU, and if rightist and anti-foreign moves gather strength in central or eastern European countries.
“A big and clear victory for Viktor Orban in Hungary: the change of values and the mass immigration extolled by the European Union have again been rejected”, French National Front leader Marine Le Pen said in a tweet Monday.