Current Polish government came to power as a result of EU conspiracy, Orbán says

Orbán said this in an interview with Hungarian state radio, in which he also mentioned an alleged EU plot against his own country. “It is not even a secret plot against Hungary, it is a plan that is openly presented,” Orbán said without confirming his claim.

“The same thing happened in Poland. The Poles also went their own way, they started to make an independent Polish policy in the areas of migration, gender and the economy,” Orbán said in the interview, from which the group quoted. AP and a Polish television station TVP.

“And so our friend Tusk became the Prime Minister of Poland. The same situation is now happening against Hungary,” continued Orbán. He identified the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the head of the European People’s Party (EPP) group in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, as key figures in the “conspiracy” being to say

Orbán, who faces national elections at the beginning of 2026, compared the EU to the former Soviet Union in the interview. “They (the EU) will work on it. They need a puppet government. Let’s face it, all empires are like that. The Soviets were like that too, weren’t they?” he said.

Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Pawel Wroński rejected Orbán’s claim, saying that Poles elected the current Tusk government in free elections. “On October 15, 2023, free parliamentary elections were held in Poland. The current government, like previous governments, was not established, but was elected and is a means of expressing the will of the Polish voters,” Wroński emphasized.

Orbán’s accusations come as opinion polls show that the prime minister’s right-wing Fidesz party is trailing, particularly the TISZA party, for the first time in nearly two decades. According to a poll by the Budapest-based Research Center 21, the party has the support of 42 percent of voters who decided to go to the polls, while Fidesz has 40 percent. .

Fidesz and PiS have supported each other in the past to challenge Brussels on migration policies and the rule of law. Relations between the two sides cooled in February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine. While Warsaw sided with the country that attacked, Budapest did not stop maintaining relations with Moscow.