Orbani: A "disease" is destroying Western democracies

2023-12-21 19:44:47, Kosova & Bota CNA

Orbani: A "disease" is destroying Western democracies

Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that "a kind of disease" is destroying Western democracies.

The nationalist leader, who has frequent disagreements with Brussels, due to issues related to the rule of law, has said that he is seeing "strange things in the democratic world".

During his annual address, he said that "democracies are being destroyed by a disease", but did not mention any names specifically.

"We have to be careful, because it is a big democracy that, if I understood correctly, wants to block one of the most popular candidates for president, by charging him with legal issues, to prevent his race," he said . he said.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court in Colorado ruled that former US President Donald Trump is ineligible to run for president in this state due to his involvement in the attacks against the US Congress in January 2021.

Orbani has criticized "another country, also important, where a party with a large parliamentary representation is under surveillance by national security".

This is believed to have been a reference to Germany, where intelligence services began monitoring the far-right Alternative for Germany party in 2021 for extremist tendencies.

"And I see a third country where the control over television is done by the police force", said Orban.

Finally, in Poland the government has changed, and the right-wing Law and Justice party – close to Orbán's Fidesz party – has been replaced by the pro-European wing led by Donald Tusk.

This week, the new Polish government launched reforms to the state media, aimed at restoring impartiality, and sacked the management team.

Since coming to power in 2010, Orbani has been regularly criticized by Brussels and international organizations for issues of the rule of law, migration and the like.

In 2022, the European Parliament has said that this country in Central Europe is no longer a "democracy" but a "hybrid regime of electoral autocracy", and this constitutes a serious violation of the democratic norms of the EU./ REL