Clinton: Hungarians want a Putin-type dictatorship

“Democracy is too much trouble”, he said. Therefore, Hungarians would like to create a “Putin-like leadership”. The aforementioned sentences caused an outcry in Hungary and Poland.

Politico wrote back in 2016 what former US president Bill Clinton said about Hungary and the Hungarians years ago. “Poland and Hungary, two countries that would not be free but for the United States and the long Cold War, have now decided this democracy is too much trouble,” Clinton said campaigning for his wife, Hillary then. “They want Putin-like leadership: Just give me an authoritarian dictatorship and keep the foreigners out”, he added. Both the Hungarian and Polish leaders were outraged following Clinton’s remarks. Foreign minister Péter Szijjártó said, “no one, not even Bill Clinton, can allow himself to offend the Hungarian people in this way.”

The last time an incumbent American president received a Hungarian prime minister in office was in 1998. That is when Bill Clinton held talks with PM Viktor Orbán in the White House, rtl.hu reminded on the anniversary of Bill Clinton’s speech yesterday.

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