Deputy prime minister: ruling parties committed to building peace

“War and peace, and Hungary’s economic achievements are at stake” at Sunday’s election, Zsolt Semjén, deputy prime minister and head of the co-ruling Christian Democrats, said after casting his ballot in Budapest’s 2nd district.

Preserving peace is paramount for the government and for the ruling parties, and that “Hungary should not be allowed to drift into this war”, Semjén said. “Hungarian weapons must not be sent from Hungary and Hungarian soldiers must not fight in this war,” he said. Semjén added that securing Hungary’s energy supplies and “retaining cheap energy” for households were a “primary economic and national interest”.

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At stake in Sunday’s parliamentary election is to make a choice between “decline and progress, between war and peace”, the prime minister’s chief of staff said after casting his ballot in Budapest. Gergely Gulyás said the vote would decide “if Hungary continues on the path of development in the past decade”. The election campaign has brought up “conflicting positions concerning the issue of war and peace”, he said and stressed that peace and security in Hungary “must be ensured in all circumstances”.