The US considers Viktor Orban’s recent comments “unforgivable” and condemns the Hungarian Prime Minister’s words about “racial miscegenation”. That said the spokesman for the United States Department of State, Ned Price, on Thursday. Price quoted from statement by US government anti-Semitism commissioner Deborah Lipstadt.
The statement said: “It is deeply disturbing that Hungary’s right-wing nationalist prime minister is using rhetoric that clearly evokes the racial ideology of the Nazis.” so easy to downplay, Lipstadt said.
Caused international outrage
Orban sparked international outrage on Saturday with his speech in the Romanian spa town of Baile Tusnad, making statements there about “racial mixing” and an allusion to the Nazi gas chambers in connection with the EU’s gas emergency plan. During a visit to Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP), Orban justified himself by saying that these should be understood as “cultural” and not “organic”. “I sometimes formulate ambiguously,” he admitted.
In connection with Orban’s statement regarding the “mixed races”, a Hungarian of Syrian descent turned to Hungarian President Katalin Novak. In a letter posted to Facebook, Viktor Nassli, who has part Syrian, part Hungarian ancestry, asked: “Am I also a ‘mixed race’?”
Should he then “consider himself as another citizen and therefore wear an outward sign or symbol for identification?”, the person feels.
‘Clear break with values of the European treaties’
In an open letter to European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, liberal MEP Guy Verhofstadt has called for the EU rule of law mechanism (Article 7 procedure) against Hungary to be finally put forward in view of Orban’s recent statements. “This is a clear break with the norms and values of the European treaties and reminds us of the darkest days in European history,” Verhofstadt said in the letter.
Orban’s adviser Zsuzsa Hegedüs, who resigned as a social integration official on Tuesday in a sensational move in protest against the prime minister’s statements, has withdrawn. Due to the clarifications made by the head of government on Thursday during his visit to Vienna, her resignation was “now groundless”, the sociologist said in an open letter published Friday by the portal “Mandiner”.
Source: Krone
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