Former Polish minister granted asylum in Hungary weighs into Péter Magyar in Hungarian on social media

Former Polish Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro, who was granted asylum by the Hungarian government in January along with his wife, addressed a message posted on X and Facebook to Péter Magyar, the leader of the Tisza Party.

At home, Ziobro is suspected of having founded and led a criminal group while serving as Minister of Justice during the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) government. The organization is alleged to have embezzled more than 150 million zlotys (more than 36 million euros). According to the investigation, Ziobro took money from the Justice Fund, which was established to assist victims of crime and to prevent crime. If convicted, the politician could face up to 25 years in prison.

In his message written in Hungarian, Ziobro denies any wrongdoing and describes himself and Marcin Romanowski, the former Polish deputy minister who is also accused of corruption and was also granted asylum in Hungary, as targets of the criminal actions of the "Tusk dictatorship." Donald Tusk is the current prime minister of Poland.

He goes on to accuse the current Polish coalition government of coming to power "thanks to illegal interference from Brussels." According to him, even the "prosecutor's office, which they took over illegally," is not claiming that he personally took even 1 złoty in corruption money. He then elaborates on how the national debt has increased under Tusk's government and writes about the Polish Prime Minister's plans to introduce gay marriage.

“Therefore, Mr. Magyar, I am not the one who's a problem for Hungary, but it's people like you and Donald Tusk—who give in to outside interests and lead their countries into a state of subjugation to Brussels. I wholeheartedly warn Hungarians against Tusk's imitators, because this is a path to disaster, which I do not wish on my Hungarian brothers and sisters!”

– he wrote in the post, and again expressed his gratitude to Viktor Orbán.

In mid-January, when the news broke that Ziobro and his wife had received political asylum in Hungary, the opposition Tisza Party reacted by saying that "under the Tisza government, Hungary will not be a safe haven for foreign criminals." This is presumably why Ziobro's post addresses Magyar specifically, and why it begins with the argument that "Hungary is not harboring "wanted criminals" but is protecting people who are being persecuted by criminals".