Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who’s been repeatedly slandered by unelected eurocrats for being ‘corrupt,’ on Monday ridiculed the European Parliament following allegations that one of its leftist vice presidents took massive cash bribes from the autocratic Qatari regime to help smooth over the country’s dreadful international reputation.
In a Twitter post published Monday, December 12th, Prime Minister Orbán wrote the words: “Good morning to the European Parliament,” above a 1981 photo of a group of politicians, including former U.S. presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, manically laughing at a cocktail party.
The text laid over the image, which is a meme frequently used across the internet, reads: “And then they said the EP is seriously concerned about corruption in Hungary.”
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s jab comes following anti-corruption sweeps carried out on Friday morning, December 9th, in Brussels which saw four people arrested, including European Parliament Vice-President Eva Kaili (S&D) and three other individuals who have not yet been named. AP, however, has reported that an EU lawmaker and a former MEP were among those who were arrested during the raids.
According to the AP report, during Friday’s operation, which is a part of a major investigation into an alleged illicit influence campaign by the Qatari regime, authorities found €600,000 in a private home, “several hundred thousand euros” in a suitcase at a Brussels hotel, and €150,000 at Kaili’s apartment.
At the same time, in its political crusade against Hungary—meant to punish the state for refusing to bow to Brussels dictates—the European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, has recommended freezing €13 billion in EU funds earmarked for Hungary over ‘corruption’ and risks to ‘the rule of law.’
The Commission, ironically, claims Hungary has so far failed to introduce anti-corruption reforms that meet the EU’s ‘high’ standards. The European Parliament, which the left-liberals in the same political grouping as Vice-Presient Kaili exert massive control over, has also voted not to release the money owed to the Hungarians.
In September, as a part of its ongoing attempt to destroy the Hungarian government, the European Parliament declared in a motion adopted by lawmakers that Hungary is “no longer a democracy” but an “electoral autocracy.”
Responding to news of the scandal, Hungarian MEP Balázs Hidvéghi slammed the hypocrisy of left-liberal MEPS in a tweet, saying: “So basically [left-liberals] have fabricated lies about corruption in Hungary for years, and now their leading politician, the Vice-President of the European Parliament is involved in the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the EU. Hypocrisy at its best!”
