BREAKING NEWS – US Ambassador in Budapest has been summoned

Hungary’s government on Tuesday summoned the US ambassador over President Joe Biden’s recent remark on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the foreign minister said, insisting that “we are not obliged to take lies from anyone, even if that person is the President of the United States.”

The foreign ministry said in a statement that at the briefing held at a different diplomatic event, Péter Szijjártó was asked about Biden attributing to Orbán words that suggested the Hungarian prime minister didn’t think democracy worked.

“Since such a lie has been said in connection with the Hungarian prime minister, we summoned the ambassador of the United States to the ministry, who was here today,” Szijjártó said. “Deputy minister Levente Magyar received him, and we asked the ambassador to present the quote and the time and place where the prime minister allegedly made such a statement.”

“As such a statement was obviously not made, we could not get any meaningful answer,” the minister said.

He said that the US ambassador’s reference to the official US position that Hungary was “building a dictatorship” made it extremely difficult to further Hungarian-US relations, arguing that such a suggestion “is an offense not to the government, but to the country.”

Szijjártó said that the prime minister and the government were leading the country with a mandate received from Hungarian voters. “We won four general elections in a row, in which the people set for us the direction of governing and we are now executing this [task].”

“So this is a very serious offence we flatly reject … so we summoned the ambassador; and this kind of mindset of an American president, and the Democratic administration is a heavy burden on our bilateral relations,” the minister said.

Commenting on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s remark that the Hungarian government was “playing a very dangerous game” with Russia, Szijjártó said it was the war itself that was dangerous, as it leads to a loss of life and a risk of escalation.

“And we don’t want this war to spread any further, since we live right here in its neighbourhood, and if the war spreads further, we will be directly endangered by it,” Szijjártó said. “So we will continue to do everything in the interest of there being peace in our neighbouring country.”

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The Biden administration is sending increasingly serious signals to the Hungarian government that they are interfering in the election of a partner country and trying to influence people. The Orbán cabinet, on the other hand, is using increasingly strong communication messages and supporting Trump’s re-election. Meanwhile, the Hungarian government has always said that no one from outside should interfere in Hungarian elections.