Orbán has banned the transfer of arms to Ukraine, which shares a border with Hungary, and the Prime Minister has also described Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy as an “opponent”.
The gerrymandering and election rule changes that have taken place at this most recent vote saw a 200-strong monitoring team with United Nations observer status sent in, only the second time this has ever happened in an EU member state.įollowing the election, the Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin was confident the two countries could continue their close relationship “despite the difficult international situation”. The Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, who passed those laws, recently won a fourth general election to extend his premiership, which began in 2010. The first three stages of the 2022 Italian Grand Tour will be held in Hungary, where “homophobic and transphobic laws”, as described by Amnesty International, were passed in 2021. The organisers of the Giro d’Italia, RCS Sport, have said they do not wish to enter into any discussion of political and human rights with regards to the Budapest Grande Partenza.