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The landslide victory of P\u00e9ter Magyar and his Tisza party over Viktor Orb\u00e1n in Hungary’s general election on Sunday prompted sharply divided reactions across the Italian political spectrum.<\/p>\n
Orb\u00e1n, 62, conceded the “painful” defeat to pro-EU candidate Magyar, 45, who ousted the rightwing Hungarian prime minister after 16 years in power.<\/p>\n
Meloni, who had been among Orb\u00e1n’s most vocal European supporters, posted a statement on X congratulating Magyar on his “clear election victory.”<\/p>\n
She also paid tribute to her departing ally, saying: “I thank my friend Viktor Orb\u00e1n for the intense collaboration over the years,” adding that Italy and Hungary are “bound by a deep bond of friendship.”<\/p>\n
Viktor Orb\u00e1n and Giorgia Meloni. Photo credit: Marco Iacobucci Epp \/ Shutterstock.com.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The response from Italy’s opposition was considerably less diplomatic.<\/p>\n Elly Schlein, leader of the centre-left Partito Democratico (PD), speaking on La7, declared: “The time of sovereignisms and sovereignist right-wingers is over. Freedom, democracy and the desire for Europe have won. Orb\u00e1n lost, and with him Trump lost \u2014 and Meloni and [Italy’s deputy premier Matteo] Salvini lost with their embarrassing videos supporting Orb\u00e1n and his autocracy.”<\/p>\n Former prime minister Matteo Renzi described the result as evidence of a “reverse Midas touch” by Meloni, noting that the Italian prime minister had backed anti-European parties in Poland, Spain and Hungary – and seen her chosen side lose in all three elections.<\/p>\n Perhaps the most personal reaction came from MEP Ilaria Salis, the Italian activist and Green-Left (AVS) representative who was imprisoned in Hungary for 15 months after being arrested in Budapest in 2023.<\/p>\n Salis, who posted a photograph of herself on X holding a sign reading “Goodbye forever, Mr Orb\u00e1n,” said the election result was “not a victory for the left, but at least a crushing defeat for the global far right and – hopefully – the end of a regime. Hungary and Europe will be better places without Orb\u00e1n.”<\/p>\n Image:\u00a0P\u00e9ter Magyar. Photo credit: Istvan Csak \/ Shutterstock.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meloni pays tribute to close ally Orb\u00e1n while Italy’s centre-left opposition celebrates Magyar win. The landslide victory of P\u00e9ter Magyar and his Tisza party over Viktor Orb\u00e1n in Hungary’s general election on Sunday prompted sharply divided reactions across the Italian political spectrum. Orb\u00e1n, 62, conceded the “painful” defeat to pro-EU candidate Magyar, 45, who ousted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4244,24352,29751,3132,9084,29254,29750],"class_list":["post-45650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eventi","tag-defeat","tag-election","tag-hungary","tag-italian","tag-orban","tag-politicians","tag-react"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}