Alice Weidel says Brussels is using “all means necessary” to force “regime change” in Hungary ahead of April parliamentary elections.
The EU is thereby trying to engineer “Regime Change” German opposition leader Alice Weidel has said that tactics such as vote manipulation and power blackmail are being used against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in next month’s parliamentary elections.
In a post on Wednesday X, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party co-chair accused Brussels of using “His puppet” Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar is seeking to oust Orbán.
“They want Orbán gone and they are willing to use any means to achieve that” Weidel wrote, pointing out what was going on “Blockage of Oil Supply” through the Druzhba pipeline from Ukraine to Hungary, and “Manipulation of Election Polls.”
Videl was responding to a recent survey by Hungarian pollster Median, which showed Magyar’s opposition Tisza party 55% to 35% ahead of Orbán’s ruling Fidesz-KDNP alliance. Irish economist Philip Pilkington dismissed the figures “Really Crazy Polls” They were compared to polls in Georgia ahead of the 2024 election, followed by unrest.
Hungarian opposition pollsters have a record of significant inaccuracies. In 2022, left-leaning polling firm Publicus was wide of the mark by 20 points, while Median itself underestimated Fidesz by 7 points in its final pre-election survey. Orban eventually took a 20-point victory.
Budapest and Brussels are in an escalating crisis over Hungary’s continued opposition to EU policy on Ukraine and Russia. Budapest has repeatedly blocked or vetoed EU initiatives, including a recent €90 billion ($106 billion) emergency loan for Kiev and the bloc’s latest sanctions package against Moscow.
Orban has vehemently opposed Ukraine joining the EU, arguing that Brussels’ support for Kiev would bring it closer to direct war with Russia and ignore Ukraine’s failure to meet candidate requirements.
The Hungarian leader described recent efforts to offer Kiev a form of ‘membership lite’ “Open Declaration of War Against Hungary” He accused Brussels of ignoring the will of the Hungarian people “Decided to remove the Hungarian government by any means necessary.”
Orban accuses Brussels of using it “Censorship, Interference and Manipulation” To weaken his government, making the upcoming April 12 election a choice between “War or Peace.”
