“Prime Minister Donald Tusk has launched another attack against Hungary. He is doing this because he is in big trouble at home. His party lost the presidential election, his government is unstable, and he is trailing in the polls,” wrote Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on X.com. The politician’s post is spreading rapidly across social media.
Orbán met with Ziobro
The Hungarian prime minister met on Thursday in Budapest with Zbigniew Ziobro. The former Polish justice minister wrote on X that he traveled to Budapest for a film premiere. He added that he was also invited to an “unscheduled meeting with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.”
This coincided with Tuesday’s announcement that Waldemar Żurek, the justice minister in Tusk’s government, had submitted a motion to the Sejm requesting the lifting of Ziobro’s parliamentary immunity, as well as his detention and arrest. The case, of course, concerns the “Justice Fund.”
Orbán posted a photo with Ziobro online, writing that after “the enormous victory of the Polish right in the presidential elections, the pro-Brussels Polish government has begun a political witch hunt against it.”
Tusk could not resist commenting, posting on X: “Either under arrest or in Budapest.”
Strong words directed at Tusk
Orbán responded with a lengthy post criticizing the leader of the “December 13 coalition.”
“Prime Minister @donaldtusk has launched another attack against Hungary. He is doing this because he is in big trouble at home. His party lost the presidential election, his government is unstable, and he is trailing in the polls,” Orbán wrote.
He continued: “Together with @ManfredWeber, he has become one of the loudest warmongers in Europe — yet his war policy is failing: Ukraine is running out of European money, and the Polish people are tired of the war. He cannot change course because he has turned Poland into a vassal of Brussels.”
The Hungarian leader went on: “He is now in panic mode, persecuting his political opponents and criticising Hungary’s pro-peace stance in an attempt to distract from his own domestic problems. This is so sad.”
Orbán also emphasized the long-standing relationship between the two nations: “The historic friendship between Hungary and Poland deserves better. I cannot and will not support Mr. Tusk’s warmongering. Hungary is following a different path — a path of peace. The Hungarian people refuse to become vassals of Brussels. It is time for Mr. Tusk to accept this — and to mind his own business.”