Hungary: after a speech by Orban deemed racist, one of his closest advisers resigns

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, June 30, 2022. © AP - Bertrand Guay

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The statements deemed racist by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban definitely do not pass.

After his speech on Saturday July 23 against "

", indignant reactions multiplied in Europe as well as within the national political class.

One of the Prime Minister's most senior advisers has even announced her resignation.

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Zsuzsa Hegedüs has been working alongside

for twenty years .

She even describes their relationship as friendly.

But in her resignation letter broadcast by the Hungarian media, she describes a malaise that has become less and less bearable in recent years in the face of the "

 " operated by Viktor Orban.

This Saturday, July 23, the man at the head of Hungary for twelve years exceeded the limits of what Zsuzsa Hegedüs could bear without giving up his values, she said.  

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Traveling to Romanian Transylvania, Viktor Orban launched into a new incendiary tirade against multi-ethnic societies.

He affirmed to refuse a “

 ” and hammered that the countries of cohabitation between Europeans and non-Europeans “ 

”.  

In addition to international outrage, in Hungary, the opposition and the Jewish community denounce a speech with racist overtones 

For her part, Zsuzsa Hegedüs recalls that she has long defended the Prime Minister against accusations of anti-Semitism, but that this speech which she judges as " 

" is this time quite simply "

".  

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