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Updated Friday, March 15, 2024-16:52

The world faces a decisive year and sovereignist forces will change the political map, becoming a majority in the West, the Prime Minister of Hungary, the ultranationalist Viktor Orban, said this Friday in a speech in Budapest.

"This year will be decisive. By the end of the year

we will be the majority in the Western world

. We are facing a sovereignist turn

both in the United States and in the European Union

," Orban said on the occasion of the anniversary of the Magyar revolution against the empire. of the Habsburgs in 1848.

The prime minister has

listed the countries where

right-wing and populist forces

have won in recent months

, such as

Slovakia

, the

Netherlands

and

Italy

and added that in the Czech Republic "they are waking up" and also in Austria "they are preparing", while in the US "they rebelled."

The Hungarian leader, who has governed Hungary with an absolute majority since 2010, met a few days ago in the United States with the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, with whom he maintains a personal friendship.

As Orban told thousands of his supporters in the center of Budapest, the sovereigntist forces

will "restore normal life

. "

In relation to the EU, Orban has again compared

Brussels

to an empire that "

abandoned the people

, the farmers, the middle class and businesses", while limiting "the rights of nations".

"They want to force us into war"

The prime minister, considered Moscow's best ally in the EU, has assured that Brussels wants the

entire union to participate in the war in Ukraine

, something that Hungary rejects.

"Europeans fear that the EU will take away their freedom," Orban emphasized, ensuring that in this situation

"the only solution" is to occupy Brussels

, to achieve changes.

Furthermore, he has accused the EU of "blackmailing" Hungary with the freezing of European funds, but has assured that it will not be successful, since so far "all empires have failed" in their attempts to dominate the Central European country.

"They want to force us to participate in the war (in Ukraine), to accept immigrants and they want to indoctrinate our children," Orban exclaimed, assuring that "Hungary is a sovereign country and will continue to be so."

"

In the (European) elections

on June 9

you will not be able to hide

, you will have to decide whether to defend your homeland or eat other people's bread," Orban concluded, addressing his followers.

All Hungarian political forces begin their respective electoral campaigns this Friday for the European Parliament elections next June.