New US leadership tilts competition towards PM Orbán’s Patriots for Europe?

The new American leadership is tilting the competition in Europe towards patriotic forces, Balázs Orbán, the prime minister’s political director, told public media at a summit of the Patriots for Europe (PfE) grouping in Madrid on Saturday.

The fact that the leadership in the United States has changed and conservative national forces have come to power has serious consequences for other Western countries, he said. In the United States they apparently took it seriously that everything had to be done differently than before, and this would change global political processes, he added. The optimism among Patriots shows that they also believe that this will tip the balance of power in favour of patriotic forces and Hungary, he said.

Orbán said he expects members of the PfE to strengthen, as the grouping has won every election since its founding, and they had a serious chance of coming into power in Austria and Czechia and they are already in government in Italy and the Netherlands. “People are fed up with a political elite that considers itself morally superior but does not benefit the people in what it proposes, for example on issues such as war, sanctions, the green transition, competitiveness, the tax system or migration,” Orbán said. “It is over for this European elite.”