When it comes to political gain, for George Soros nothing is sacred, the Minister of State for International Communication and Relations stressed on his Facebook account on Monday.

Zoltán Kovács wrote on Monday the Soros blog called Project Syndicate published interviews “with its own patron” George Soros and “his favourite Brussels spokesperson, a great friend of the Hungarian people” Guy Verhofstadt.

He highlighted that in the articles “which were not coordinated in the least”, they refer to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as a dictator and a populist. MEP Guy Verhofstadt goes so far as to “liken the coronavirus legislation to Hitler’s Enabling Act”.

Mr Kovács wrote “it is an interesting concept to call someone a dictator just because they don’t share Soros’s obsession with the ideal of open societies, or because they hand over the decision to end the state of danger to Parliament”. The fact that parties other than their choice have a majority is a democratic decision of the Hungarian people, he continued, highlighting that “as a warrior of democracy he should perhaps show some more respect for this fact”.

“As for what they are attempting to depict as populist, it can be summed up – after Abraham Lincoln – as ‘of the people, by the people, for the people’: with the mandate received from the people, together with the people, for the people,” the Minister of State pointed out.

“Meanwhile, Soros is proposing that Europe – that he regards as his home – drown itself in debt in the form of perpetual bonds,” Mr Kovács highlighted, taking the view that “quite evidently, there is nothing sacred for the speculator when it comes to (political) gain”.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister/MTI)