Putin praises Orban's comfortable victory in Hungary and guarantees his gas supply

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• Elections Viktor Orban rises with electoral victory in Hungary

The strongman of Budapest has become even stronger, but also more isolated from Europe.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's landslide victory in Sunday's elections has received sincere congratulations only from right-wing populist parties and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The founder and leader of the Fidesz party owes

his war in Ukraine .

Completed the count, Orban obtained 53% of the votes and 135 of the 199 parliamentary seats.

It is the most notable electoral victory achieved by a political party in Hungary since the end of communism more than 30 years ago.

In a telegram to Orban broadcast by the Russian agency Tass, Putin praised the very comfortable victory of his ally in the European Union and assured that "despite the complex international situation,

.

Put another way, Putin will reward Orban's refusal to provide weapons to Ukraine or allow lethal NATO weapons to pass through his territory with uninterrupted gas supplies at a good price and in euros.

and there is no intention to reduce that dependency.

It has also put the development of its nuclear energy in the hands of Russia, while also following Putin's example, it opens its arms to China.

The railway line that will link Budapest and Belgrade, a contract that the Hungarian government has described as secret, is vital in

China 's

The Balkans is Beijing's gateway to Western European markets.

For Orban, not helping the friend's enemy is called "neutrality" and that is what he has sold to the electorate.

In the "illiberal" conception of democracy practiced by Fidesz, there is no room for the defense of the values ​​inherent in the rule of law, for non-compliance with which the European Commission has placed Hungary on the bench and for which, in addition to its sovereignty and integrity territorial, fight Ukraine.

Orban has been consistent in this, hence he has disguised his neutrality by spreading fear.

With many favors to return, Orban's electoral program has been summed up in accusing the opposition of wanting to get Hungary into a war, since that could be the consequence of supplying it with weapons.

By that rule of thumb, the entire European Union is under threat of war.

The message penetrated the memory of the Hungarians.

They visualized Red Army tanks invading Hungary in 1956 to put down an uprising during Soviet rule.

Orban began his career as a liberal student leader and opponent of communism, although he was previously a member of the party, like his parents.

After 1998, he became the protégé of then German Chancellor

, with whom he developed a close personal friendship.

Kohl, already retired if not ignored from the public scene, only received Orban.

The Christian Social Union (CDU), the Bavarian partners of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) never achieved such a privilege, although Orban made many visits to the Bavarian capital.

The Fidesz party was forced a year ago to leave the European People's Party, but it was not an orphan.

Orban had already developed a friendly and interest-ridden relationship with Putin and thus with all the populist parties that share his decadent vision of the West.

The Hungarian prime minister has received, in addition to Putin's congratulations, that of the head of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) parliamentary group,

, the leader of the French right-wing

and the Dutch right-wing populist

.

This was followed by congratulations from the Czech and also pro-Russian president

"It is precisely our voters -and not the media or supranational organizations- the arbiters of our daily work" reads his telegram in implicit reference to the media of the "decadent West" and the organization of the billionaire

, the Hungarian- most hated American in Eastern Europe.

At the start of the election campaign,

The loneliness of Marki-Zay

Orban, although with a victory that not even he himself imagined, took a mass bath on election night that contrasted with the desolation of the opposing camp.

The six opposition parties that ran together against Orban left only their candidate, the independent

.

Defeat, in politics, ends friendships.

Marki-Zay did not meet the expectations placed on him by the right-wing, liberal, environmentalist and left-wing formations agglutinated in the "United for Hungary" movement.

He was not even elected in his city, which has been mayor since 2018.

only garnered 35% of the vote or the equivalent of 56 seats.

Only Marki-Zay showed his face, accompanied by his wife and his seven children.

Adding desolation to the barren Hungarian parliamentary life of the next four years is the winning of 7 seats by the far-right New Fatherland party, which did not join the opposition platform.

The panorama drawn by the demoscopic houses was quite different.

The polls, although Orban always headed them, spoke of a close race and that encouraged, for the first time, the possibility of a change, in the country and in its relations with Brussels.

Marki-Zay promised what many Hungarians believe is good:

In turbulent times, voters do not want experiments and Orban knew how to take advantage of the war in Ukraine to become the father of the country.

He rushed to the border, welcomed the refugees, calling them neighbors and friends, unlike the Syrian refugees in 2015. He put on his friendliest face and took time to call the attack "war," a agonizing time for the EU and NATO partners that Orban took advantage of to distribute gifts by law or financed by the state coffers:

.

The obscene distribution of electoral spaces and the reform of an electoral law that benefits the ruling FIDESZ party did the rest.

The machinery was unstoppable.

But Orban's victory could be bittersweet.

Its neighbors in the Visegrad Group, especially Poland, have turned their backs on it because of its equidistance with Ukraine and the European Commission has up its sleeve the activation of the conditionality mechanism that will allow Hungary to freeze European funds.

Failure in LGBT referendum

The referendum held on Sunday in Hungary on the law that prohibits talking about homosexuality and gender change to minors - criticized as homophobic inside and outside the country - has failed

reported Efe.

The approval of the law

, considering it homophobic, discriminatory and contrary to community values.

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