Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has expressed full support to the Georgian authorities at a briefing in Tbilisi.
“I would like to congratulate you for not allowing your country to be turned into a second Ukraine in the face of aspirations for European integration... “We very much appreciate the Prime Minister's loyalty to this idea, and I am personally convinced that by the end of the decade Georgia will indeed be ready, in its best shape, to become an EU member state. We will do everything to help you,” Orban said after meeting with his Georgian counterpart Irakli Kobakhidze.
Orban also said Georgia's elections were free and fair. He called the criticism “hype” and advised “not to look at it seriously.”
According to him, “European politics is based on a ‘methodology’: if liberals win, it means there is democracy there, if conservatives win, then it turns out not to be democracy.”
“I have studied the report prepared by Hungarian observers - in all aspects it was positive, it was about free and fair elections, so I want to congratulate the Georgian prime minister,” the Hungarian prime minister said.
Georgian authorities call Orban one of their main allies in Europe.
After the parliamentary elections in Georgia last Saturday, Orban was the first to congratulate the ruling Georgian Dream party on its victory immediately after the polls closed, without waiting for the announcement of even the preliminary results.
Together with Orban, Hungary's Secretary of State, ministers of foreign affairs and trade, economy and finance arrived in Georgia.
Ministers from 13 EU countries issued a special statement indicating that Orban “does not speak for the EU” during the visit.
Reprinted from https://www.newsgeorgia.ge/
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