Trump confident Orbán's party will win Hungarian parliamentary elections
Photo: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (Getty Images)
At the Peace Summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, US President Donald Trump called Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán fantastic and expressed confidence in the victory of his Fidesz party in the 2026 parliamentary elections.
"Viktor. We love Viktor. Viktor, I call him (Victor means winner in Latin - ed.). You are fantastic. I know a lot of people don't agree with me, but I'm the only one that matters," says Trump.
The President called Orbán a great leader and recalled how he supported him in the last election, which the politician won.
"He won by 28 points. So, you are going to do even better this time. You have another election coming up, and you are going to do great, and we appreciate it and we are behind you 100%," Trump adds.
US-Hungary relations
Hungarian parliamentary elections are scheduled for April 2026. The favorites in the race are Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party and Péter Magyar's opposition party, Tisza.
For more on the key dangers of the Hungarian elections for Ukraine, read the article by RBC-Ukraine.
At the end of September, Trump announced his intention to force Orbán to refuse to purchase Russian oil.
However, the Hungarian Prime Minister rejected this proposal and stressed that Budapest would be guided by its own national interests in this matter.
