PES president Sergei Stanishev said:
“We can’t possibly be happy that Viktor Orban won the election in Hungary and neither should the EPP. This is the man who changed his country’s constitution with complete disregard for the opposition, the one who destroyed the independence of the Hungarian media and judiciary, who routinely attacks minorities and political rivals and the principles of the EU. Orban is the man who fought dictatorship in his youth and now he is leading the country towards autocracy himself. He has betrayed Hungarian democracy and his own legacy.
“We strongly support a deep political change in Hungary and we trust MSZP and MSZDP to prompt it.”