Budapest (dpa-Afx)-Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban congratulated AfD boss Alice Weidel after the Bundestag election, but not Union Chancellor candidate and election winner Friedrich Merz. “The people of Germany voted in a huge number for change,” wrote the Hungarian right -wing populist on the platform X. “I would like to congratulate Alice Weidel to have doubled the voice share of the AfD.”
Orban’s Fidesz Party had left the European People’s Party (EVP) in 2021 after conflicts about reducing democracy and the rule of law in Hungary, which also includes the CDU and CSU. Fidesz does not maintain any formal party education for the AfD, and the German party, which is partly right -wing extremist, does not sit in the right -wing populist parliamentary group for Europe in the European Parliament founded by Orban.
Nevertheless, the Hungarian head of government had recently been looking for closer contact with Weidel. On February 12, he received the AfD boss at his official residence in Budapest with a ceremony that was like that of a state visit. The media controlled by Orban’s people have been reporting uncritically for a long time and in the highest tones about the Afd./GM/DP/Stw