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Budapest Times
07-07-2025
- Politics
- Budapest Times
Menczer: Ukrainians say Péter Magyar is a political project just like Zelensky
Tamás Menczer, the communications director of the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrats, said: 'The Ukrainians have said it. Péter Magyar is a political project. Just like Zelensky.' Menczer said on Facebook that a Ukrainian analyst called Dmytro Tuzlanski, now working in a senior position at the Ukrainian foreign ministry, had told Free Europe that 'Péter Magyar is a classic black swan, and with his current political project, in a sense he is like Zelensky in the year when he won the election'. 'So Péter Magyar is a political project. A political project, just like Zelensky. He is the Hungarian Zelensky. He would let Ukraine into the EU,' Menczer said, adding that Ukraine must not be allowed to join the bloc.
Budapest Times
01-07-2025
- Politics
- Budapest Times
Menczer condemns ‘attack' by Ukrainian journalist on government's Vote 2025 survey
Tamás Menczer, Fidesz communications director, has condemned an 'attack' by a Ukrainian journalist on the Hungarian government's Vote 2025 public survey on Ukraine's accession to the European Union. In a post on Facebook, Menczer said Serhiy Sydorenko, '[Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky's favourite journalist', had said that the Vote 2025 initiative had 'nothing to do with the real opinion of the Hungarian people'. He said Sydorenko was in agreement with the opposition Tisza Party's claim that the result of the Vote 2025 survey was 'fake'. 'It's clear as day that Zelensky and Tisza are colluding with each other,' Menczer said. He cited Sydorenko as saying that Zelensky wanted a change of government in Hungary because Tisza and its leader, Peter Magyar, were in favour of giving Ukraine EU membership. He said the Vote 2025 survey was under 'constant attack'. 'Zelensky doesn't like the fact that this is Hungary and not Ukraine, and that he doesn't get to call the shots here,' Menczer said. 'The sovereigntist Orban government and the political community of the Fidesz-Christian Democrats behind it will defend the decision of the Hungarian people against every attack,' he added.
Budapest Times
29-06-2025
- Politics
- Budapest Times
Kocsis: Results of Vote 2025 survey on Ukraine's EU accession were ‘deep blow' to Tisza Party
Máté Kocsis, the group leader of the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrats, said on Thursday that the results of the Vote 2025 government survey on Ukraine's European Union accession was a 'deep blow' to the opposition Tisza Party, given that responses numbering almost 2.3 million were four times the number of responses to Tisza Party's own survey. 'Peter Magyar must have been strictly reprimanded by Mr Weber's team,' Kocsis said, adding that Tisza was obliged to promote Ukraine's EU membership as a condition of belonging to 'Weber's party'.
Budapest Times
19-06-2025
- Politics
- Budapest Times
Menczer: Hungarians refuse to ruin the country for the sake of Ukraine
Tamás Menczer, the Fidesz-Christian Democrats communications director, said on Monday: 'We Hungarians are not with Zelensky! We don't want to ruin our country for the sake of Ukraine!' The ruling party politician said in a post on Facebook that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky liked to quote a survey by the opposition Tisza Party suggesting that 58 percent of Hungarians backed Ukraine's EU membership. He added that Zelensky even exaggerated the polling numbers and claimed that 70 percent of Hungarians supported Ukraine. Menczer said, however, that 'we Hungarians are not with Zelensky!' 'We are providing all possible humanitarian aid and commend the heroic stand of Ukrainians, but we don't want to destroy our country for the sake of Ukraine,' he added. He insisted that Ukraine, should it acquire EU membership, would present multiple dangers. Referring to a 'plan' to cut Hungary off from Russian oil and gas, he said the price of household utilities would skyrocket. 'For us, Hungary comes first!' he said, urging compatriots to fill out the Vote 2025 ballot in the remaining five days left to do so.
Budapest Times
17-06-2025
- Politics
- Budapest Times
Orbán: Opposition has the same masters
In a video posted on Facebook, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said it was all the same whether the opposition was called DK or Tisza Party, 'their masters are the same'. In a video posted by Tamás Menczer, the communications director of the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrats, on Sunday, the prime minister said strong forces had been pitted against each other: 'We Hungarian patriots on one side, and I would not underestimate us, being several million people, and Brussels on the other side. And the Hungarians who support Brussels against their own national government.' 'It does not make a difference what the powers who stand against us are called, whether DK or Tisza, Ferenc Gyurcsány or Péter Magyar, it is all the same, because the powers in the opposition are the same. They can announce a new team, they can change the flag of the team, but the real source of power behind them is the same,' he added. PM Orbán said that, not for the first time, the choice was between a puppet government, subordinate to Brussels and acting on Brussels' command, or a national government. He added that on that choice hinged government measures that Brussels wanted to see rolled back, such as pensioners' annual bonus, the power to tax multinationals and banks, and the regulated utilities price scheme for households.
