The former Hungarian Prime Minister will also participate in the meeting of the Patriots for Europe group on June 17, which will be held before the summit of the European Council on June 18-19 in Brussels, wrote the Euronews. The news was also confirmed to our paper by Bertalan Havasi, Fidesz’s communications director.
In his reply, Bertalan Havasi wrote that the program is currently being organized, but there will also be a press conference, which is planned at the Brussels office of the Alliance for Civil Hungary Foundation on the 17th at 3 p.m.
This is Viktor Orbán’s first official trip abroad since the April 12 election defeat. The far-right European representative group founded by Viktor Orbán, a Patriots for Europe the day after the election issued a statement. In this, they expressed that they stand by Viktor Orbán and Fidesz, who lost the elections. According to the statement, Fidesz and Viktor Orbán are key players in the European representation of traditional values and democratic self-determination, and their defeat is a step back for the forces representing these values.
The group of Patriots is more united and committed than ever before to represent its goals even more strongly and stand up even more firmly for the sovereignty, freedom and well-being of all European nations, the far-right group wrote at the time.
Viktor Orbán in the summer of 2024 announced Together with Herbert Kickl, the chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria, and Andrej Babiš, the former Czech prime minister, to create a new faction, and soon after as the third largest the Patriots for Europe EP faction was also formed.
