Orbán on Péter Magyar: Brussels is sending us a magistrate in vain, we won't give in

Following Tuesday's meeting of Fidesz's leadership, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán summed up the "report from the battlefield" of those "fighting in Brussels" in a video posted on Facebook. According to him, Brussels has launched a "campaign of lies against Hungary" on the issue of migration. Orbán said that while the EU insists that it does not want to settle migrants in Hungary, in reality, it does.

The action plan for the first 100 days of the recently formed, new European Commission, led by Ursula von der Leyen, was leaked on Tuesday. It revealed, among other things, that the EC would develop a common plan to implement the cut-off from Russian gas, but also a new approach to managing migration, including new rules on the deportation of migrants.

In his video, Orbán also said that the Hungarian government had so far spent €2 million on border protection, for which "we deserve a medal, not punishment". The Hungarian Prime Minister then added that "on migration, it is enough to make a mistake once", and, with Péter Magyar's image being shown, also said that

“Their appointment of a magistrate or sending us a puppet government are all in vain, we will not give in”.

The Hungarian government has spent a lot of time dealing with Magyar on Tuesday: when Péter Magyar, the leader of the Tisza Party tried to get into the Szikla Street Children's Home in Pécs on Tuesday morning, (to deliver gifts for the children living there and examine the general state of the institution) Fidesz's communications director Tamás Menczer was there to meet him.

Menczer repeatedly called Magyar "little guy" and kept shouting at the MEP. Political scientist Gábor Török described the dispute as a landmark moment in Hungarian political history, because an important member of Fidesz, the party's communications director, took an aggressive stance against the leader of the strongest opposition party, repeatedly denigrating and insulting Magyar from up close and constantly cutting him off. "Never before has a Hungarian politician acted in such a manner, one that would be fit for a pub," Gábor Török wrote.