It took 19 months of damaged guarantees and belligerent rhetoric for Hungary to lastly ratify Sweden’s entry into NATO.
Why all of the foot-dragging, many observers puzzled, when Hungary was going to approve the Nordic nation’s membership of the navy alliance anyway?
That query has perplexed even members of Hungary’s governing get together, Fidesz, in accordance with Peter Ungar, an opposition legislator. He mentioned he had been approached by one Fidesz lawmaker, within the run-up to Monday’s vote in Parliament to just accept NATO’s enlargement, and requested: “‘What the hell is occurring with Sweden?’”
{That a} member of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s governing get together would search a proof from a rival politician is a measure of how puzzled even allies of the Hungarian chief, by no means thoughts his opponents, turned over their nation delaying NATO’s enlargement.
“The entire thing is meaningless,” mentioned Mr. Ungar, a Hungarian progressive whose mom, Maria Schmidt, is a distinguished conservative and longtime ally of Mr. Orban. “No one understands what the issue was,” Mr. Ungar added.
He declined to call the member of Parliament who had sought him out, saying that Fidesz calls for unquestioning loyalty to and acceptance of Mr. Orban’s choices, irrespective of how bewildering they may appear.
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