Orbán said on social media that Tusk “has launched another attack against Hungary” because “he is in big trouble at home,” alleging Tusk’s party lost the presidential election, his government is unstable, and he is “trailing in the polls.”
He also accused Tusk and European People’s Party chief Manfred Weber of being among Europe’s “loudest warmongers,” claiming “his war policy is failing,” that “Ukraine is running out of European money,” and that “the Polish people are tired of the war.”
“He has turned Poland into a vassal of Brussels,” Orbán said, adding that Tusk was “in panic mode, persecuting his political opponents and criticizing Hungary’s pro-peace stance” to divert attention from domestic issues.
“The historic friendship between Hungary and Poland deserves better,” he wrote, saying Hungary “is following a different path — a path of peace” and that “the Hungarian people refuse to become vassals of Brussels.”
Orbán said he met Ziobro in Budapest on Thursday. Ziobro, a former justice minister, wrote on X that he travelled for a film premiere and was invited to an “unplanned” meeting with Orbán.
On Tuesday, Justice Minister and Prosecutor General Waldemar Żurek submitted to the Sejm a request to lift Ziobro’s immunity and for his detention and arrest in a case that includes alleged rigging of competitions for multimillion-złoty grants from the Justice Fund.
Ziobro told the portal wPolityce.pl he had not applied for political asylum in Hungary. Orbán posted a photo with Ziobro and wrote that after “a huge victory of the Polish right in the presidential elections,” Poland’s “pro-Brussels government” launched a political campaign against it.
Responding to the meeting, Tusk wrote on X: “Either in custody, or in Budapest.”
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Source: PAP