The PiS government freezes contacts with Victor Orban
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Since PiS's victory in the 2015 elections, Victor Orban and his Fidesz have been cherished by the PiS government and politicians. The Hungarian prime minister was seen as a defender of conservative values and a man who did not bow to Brussels. Back in December, Mateusz Morawiecki and Jarosław Kaczyński were building a great Eurosceptic coalition with Orban, joined by pro-Putin politicians from other EU countries, including Marine Le Pen from the French National Union and Matteo Salvini from the Italian League. But that changed after Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
The last phase of the election campaign is currently underway in Hungary, and the war has become its main focus. The opposition accuses Orbán of becoming Putin's puppet because he does not want to agree to tighten sanctions and the supply of weapons to Kyiv via Hungarian territory and airspace.
Orbán's proputinist stance sparked a rage in other Visegrad Group capitals. On Friday, Jana Czernochowá, the Czech Minister of Defense, announced her resignation from going to the meeting in Budapest. She stated that she would not enter the election campaign on the side of Fidesz. And she emphasized: "For Hungarian politicians, cheap Russian oil is now more important than Ukrainian blood." On Monday it turned out that the head of the Polish Ministry of National Defense, Mariusz Błaszczak, would not go to Budapest either, which Gazeta’s journalists confirmed in two government sources.
