The Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, has assessed that the setback at the polls of the hitherto Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, also represents a "great defeat of authoritarianism in Europe", of Vox and of its leader, Santiago Abascal. In his opinion, it is a very positive piece of news because it implies that Hungary is once again aligning itself with Europeanism and democratic principles.
"It will allow Hungary to leave the path of authoritarianism in which it had embarked in recent years due to the authoritarian policies of Viktor Orbán," Urtasun assured this Monday in statements to the media during the inauguration of the European Author Fashion International Conference in Barcelona.
He has pointed out that in the heart of the continent a dynamic of democratic backsliding was consolidating and he has remarked that, with the result of these elections, "a pawn of Trump's and Putin's authoritarianism is defeated and a great ally of Santiago Abascal is also defeated".
In this vein, he recalled the connections between the Orbán Government and the Spanish far-right party. "Mr. Orbán has facilitated financing through Hungarian banks to Vox, because we have always said it and we have repeated it, Vox is a party financed with foreign money," Urtasun defended.
Criticism of the PP and Vox for the war
NO TO WAR
Questioned about the Popular Party's criticisms of the PSOE's "no to war", the head of Culture has demanded both the PP and Vox that "once and for all when they have to choose between Netanyahu and Spain, they choose their country".
"What we are still waiting for from the PP is for them to condemn the war and condemn the words of Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, who threatened our country," the minister has said, insisting that the right must clearly state its position on the conflict and the statements of the Israeli prime minister.