US President Donald Trump told ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl on Tuesday that the loss of Viktor Orbán in the Hungarian parliamentary elections does not worry him and that he likes the likely future prime minister Péter Magyar. TASR informs about it according to a Reuters report.
- Donald Trump declared that he is not worried about the defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary.
- Trump called the likely new prime minister, Péter Magyar, a good person.
- The American president admitted that he was not significantly involved in the Hungarian election campaign.
- Trump publicly supported Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party several times during the campaign.
- The Tisza party led by Péter Magyar won a constitutional majority in the parliament.
“I think the new prime minister will do a good job, he is a good person,” stated the head of the White House, saying that he is not sure if the situation would have changed if he had arrived in Budapest instead of Vice President JD Vance. “He was way behind. I wasn’t very involved. But Viktor is a good person,” he added.
During the election campaign in Hungary, Trump repeatedly expressed his support for Orbán. He even addressed voters last week during a visit to Vance, when the vice president called him on the phone during his speech. Magyar’s Tisza party won Sunday’s parliamentary elections, securing a constitutional majority in the process. After 16 years, the era of the government of the Fidesz party of the incumbent Prime Minister Orbán will thus come to an end in Hungary.
