He referred to Ukraine's leader as one of his 'opponents,' along with Brussels 'bureaucrats' and the international media.
"We will remember this victory until the end of our lives because we had to fight against a huge amount of opponents," said the far-right leader, naming political rivals on the Hungarian left, Brussels "bureaucrats," international media, "and the Ukrainian president too."as a "Russian branch in Europe" while urging EU leaders to "stop listening to the excuses of Budapest.
Orbán's close ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin came under scrutiny in the final stretch of Hungary's election campaign,The Organization for Security and Cooperation sent a full monitoring mission to Hungary to observe polling — a for the security and rights watchdog to take in an EU member state, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty notes.The OSCE said in a preliminary report in February that its points about problems from the 2018 elections hadn't been addressed and expressed concerns about "bias in public media and the potential for postal vote abuses," the outlet notes.
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