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Orbán votes against Ukraine’s membership in EU (www.pravda.com.ua)

submitted 8 months ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/world@quokk.au

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has voted in a national consultation in which Hungarians are asked if they would support Ukraine's accession to the European Union, and he even showed the whole process.

Source: European Pravda; Viktor Orbán on Facebook

Quote: "Brussels and the Tisza party [opposing Orbán – ed.] support Ukraine's accession to the EU. This will destroy the Hungarian economy. We will not allow them to decide our future over our heads. I have already voted."

Details: One of the photos released by Orbán shows him ticking the "against" box on the ballot paper measuring the level of Hungary's support for Ukraine's EU membership.

Background:

On 5 March, Viktor Orbán announced a poll in Hungary on support for Ukraine's EU membership. On 19 April, ballots for the national consultation were sent to Hungarians, directly calling for a vote against Ukraineʼs membership in the EU. Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski sarcastically commented on Orbán's initiative.

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[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Hopefully not for long as Hungary voting rights may finally be suspended.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a little more complicated: Orbán wants to make it sound like Ukraine in the EU is something that no one wants, so he held a referendum of all the Hungarians to determine whether they want Ukraine to join the EU.

Just like the other pieces of shit cast in the same mold, he doesn't actually care what people think. If the citizens of Ukraine or the EU vote to let them in, that doesn't matter. What matters is that he has a little piece of paper to wave around to help him oppose it. The idea of democracy, to him, is a fool's exercise to be exploited when necessary and discarded when it's no longer convenient for him.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Well, Hungarians ought to remind this nazi fucker what happened to Caucescu.