The Hungarian Viktor Orban hoped that a victory of Marine Le Pen would allow him to refound a sovereignist European line.
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By going to inaugurate the Hungarian Budapest Vocational Training Show, Monday, April 25, Viktor Orban did not have time to comment on the results of the French elections, where her ally, Marine Le Pen, suffered a defeat in The ballot boxes, the day before. “The national forces won the legislative elections three weeks ago with unprecedented support,” only praised the nationalist Prime Minister, but it was about his own, overwhelming re -election on April 3. Almost all European heads of state and government, including his Polish allies, nevertheless congratulated Mr. Macron on Sunday evening.
This silence is not a surprise. Mr. Macron used the Hungarian sovereignist as a scarecrow throughout the campaign and he still has not, either, congratulated Mr. Orban for his re -election. But, above all, the defeat of Marine Le Pen thwarts all the plans to redesign the rights and the hopes of upsetting the European Union that the Hungarian head of government shared with his ultra -conservative allies in power in Warsaw. “The sovereignist camp has become an essential force of European politics and, too, we want to see a Europe of the nation states”, had hoped Mr. Orban during the visit of M me le Pen Pen in Budapest, in October. A Hungarian bank partially belonging to his childhood friend, the MKB, subsequently financed the campaign of the far -right candidate.
bad political investments
Without Marine Le Pen at the Elysée, these hopes now seem very vain. Especially since this failure comes in a complicated diplomatic context for Mr. Orban, more and more isolated within this central Europe, of which he dreams of being the main leader. On Sunday, his Slovenian ally, the ultra -conservative Prime Minister Janez Jansa, also underwent a severe defeat in the legislative elections organized in this small country of the Balkans, after campaigning with the open financial support of Hungary. “Le Pen as Jansa was obviously not a good political investment,” said the Conservative title Valasz online on Monday morning.
In October, Czech Populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis had suffered the same fate, after having displayed his proximity to Mr. Orban. And relations with Poland is at the lowest since the conflict in Ukraine, on which Hungary maintains an ambiguous and distant position compared to kyiv. For several weeks, no more meeting of the Visegrad group, this set which brings together Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, has not taken place because of the deep differences on the issue of arms deliveries to kyiv, categorically refused by Hungary. Result: since his re -election, Mr. Orban has so far made a single trip abroad. It was at the Vatican, where he met the Pope, then the leader of the Italian far right Matteo Salvini, himself in the middle of a descending political slope.
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