Ukrainian MP Dmytro Mikisa has posted a video message warning Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán that he will soon be out of a job and a Tisza-led government will institute unpopular austerity measures on Ukraine’s behalf. Hungary will have an election this April, with many polls showing a landslide for Tisza, led by Brussels’ favorite Péter Magyar.
Ukraine and Hungary have long been at odds over the Fidesz government’s refusal to send weapons to Ukraine, opposing continued aid for Ukraine in Brussels, and vowing to block any accession of Ukraine to the EU. Budapest has also insisted it geographically requires the flow of Russian gas and oil that transits Ukraine via pipelines that Kyiv has continuously sabotaged.
In a direct statement to viewers, Mikisa says, according to Mandiner: “If Péter Magyar becomes prime minister, he will take the necessary steps, but they will be unpopular among the Hungarian people. Hungary is a country that is only European as long as other European countries allow it to be.”
He then threw insults at Fidesz and Orbán, calling Hungary’s leaders “vile figures” and Orbán a “slimy” and “ordinary nobody,” adding that he is the prime minister only “for the time being.”
The Ukrainian representative complained that the Hungarian prime minister had previously called Ukraine an “enemy,” a declaration echoed strongly by Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó. “We certainly won’t forget this, Viktor,” he said, claiming that the next prime minister in Hungary will “of course” be opposition leader Péter Magyar.
Mikisa also says that the Ukrainian leadership “knows” what Péter Magyar and his government “will do,” which he says, as a first step, will “change the operating model.”
According to Mikisa, these “reforms” will be unpopular among Hungarians. “Discontent among the population” will follow, so the new government will have to “explain to them” what is right.
