Viktor Orbán Re-elected as Prime Minister

Viktor Orbán was elected head of government for the fifth time after 1998, 2010, 2014 and 2018. The President of the ruling Fidesz party, who has held the post of prime minister without interruption since 2010, was elected with the 133 votes of his party with 27 MPs voting against him and the rest of the opposition boycotting the vote.

This decade will be an era of dangers, uncertainty and wars, Viktor Orbán said in Parliament on Monday, after his re-election as Prime Minister.

In his speech, the Prime Minister recalled that the decade began with the coronavirus epidemic and continued with war. The war and Europe's sanctions policy in response to it created an energy crisis, the energy crisis and the US interest rate hikes together brought an era of high inflation. He claimed that all this will bring a period of recession, a period of economic decline, with alternating years of declining, stagnating and weak growth in economic performance in Europe.

He was of the view that threatening epidemic could recur, the economic downturn could deepen, migration to rich countries could intensify with "tectonic force" and, on top of all this, a prolonged and real war with a global dimension is threatening to break out in Hungary’ eastern neighbor.

He predicted that "we are looking at a decade of war."