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Hungarian opposition figurehead Péter Magyar has declared that no outside nation has the right to intervene in his country’s electoral process, making the statement in direct response to a visit by US Vice President JD Vance.
Meanwhile, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán allegedly expressed personal deference to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a phone conversation focused on the possibility of staging peace negotiations over the Ukraine conflict in the Hungarian capital. Bloomberg, citing a leaked recording of the exchange, reported that Orbán told Putin he was “at his service.”
The conversation, which is said to have taken place last October, centered on efforts to organize a high-level summit bringing together the United States and Russia to explore pathways toward ending Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The two leaders also reportedly discussed the conditions necessary to bring such a gathering to fruition, including a preliminary meeting between the foreign ministers of both the US and Russia as a precursor to any formal negotiations.