Tusk: Hungarians have shown that Europe is not doomed to authoritarian, corrupt regimes

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that following the defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Sunday's parliamentary elections, it had once again been shown that Europe is not doomed to authoritarian, corrupt regimes like Orban's.

"The whole world is excited about this outcome because it shows that there is no trend. Everyone feared that there was an inevitable trend that this was the time of authoritarian corrupt regimes. No, it is not like that. First Warsaw, then Bucharest, Chisinau, now Budapest. I am glad that this part of Europe confirms that we are not doomed to corrupt and authoritarian governments, which after many years of rule, Viktor Orban's government has become," said Tusk, who is visiting Seoul, tonight.

Tusk emphasized that the victory of the opposition, the Tisa party led by Peter Magđar, is a big message to all those who do not believe in their own strength.

"All possible forces united against Peter the Great, including our President Karol Nawrocki and (opposition leader) Jaroslav Kaczynski, not to mention the more powerful. And he won. So everyone who does not believe in their own strength should learn the key lesson that one should always believe in victory and that anything is possible," Tusk said.

The Polish Prime Minister supported the Hungarian opposition before the elections, and told Orban on social media that instead of being Budapest in Warsaw, he could see Warsaw in Budapest on Sunday.

The Hungarian said before the election that his first foreign visit, if he wins, will be to Warsaw.

"For a long time, Hungary has blocked everything it needs to help Ukraine in its war with Russia. And there is now an obvious reversal. Two billion zlotys have been blocked for the aid we sent to Ukraine, and Europe wanted to refund them, but Orban blocked it. Now there will be concrete progress," Tusk said.

Although Kaczynski's Polish opposition conservatives and President Nawrocki, close to the MAGA movement of United States President Donald Trump, supported Orban, and Nawrocki even went to Budapest to meet with him before the elections, and although the Polish opposition also condemns his leniency towards Russian President Putin, Tusk stated that Poland will have completely extraordinary relations with the future Hungarian government.

The Polish Prime Minister added that it is often said that politics is such that a thief and a liar must always win, and that he is therefore always pleased when it turns out that truth and morality have won.