Magyar on Orbán interview: Space travel and self-praise, but no word on Hungary’s real problems

In his Sunday interview posted on the YouTube channel of Mandiner, the prime minister “talked about everything, as usual, except for the most important things,” the leader of the opposition Tisza Party said on Facebook.

“Viktor Orbán’s pre-scripted propaganda is becoming increasingly unpleasant,” Péter Magyar said.

“The interview, given to one of the prime minister’s homegrown propagandists, touched on everything, he said, “space travel, pugilism, reminiscing, changing the world, insults. But there was nothing in the programme about the crumbling health-care system, the ruined economy, the grounded flying start, the cost-of-living crisis, Orbán inflation, the railway company grinding to a halt and theft on an industrial scale,” he added.

“The pre-scripted ‘interview’ became particularly nauseating when the ‘brave’ street fighter hid behind women’s skirts and lamented that the women whom he humiliated, made resign and threw under the bus to save his own hide, are no longer in public life,” Magyar said.

Magyar called on Orbán to “gather his courage and come to a debate. Or stop altogether. It would be better for everyone, especially the country. Hungary and Hungarians deserve more. 280 days,” Magyar said, referring to the time until the next elections.

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