Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, has underlined how the “liberal mainstream’s master plan” in the United States to disqualify Donald Trump from the presidential race “has failed”.
Answering a question in connection with the US presidential election and the US Supreme Court’s decision clearing Trump to run for president, Minister Szijjártó welcomed “the failure of the liberal mainstream’s master plan” to disqualify a non-liberal candidate with a good chance to win and that the Democrats will have to compete against Trump “in a democratic race”. “This is a very important victory from the point of view of the rule of law,” Szijjártó said, adding that it was regrettable that no statements had been made by Brussels this time on “how it was a violation of the rule of law and European values — which we regard as universal values — that a decision on who can or cannot run as a candidate in the primaries, or in the presidential election, could have been taken by an official in a certain American state”. “But this is their business … what is certain is that we have always respected decisions made by the people of other countries concerning who they elect for leaders, including in the United States,” Szijjártó said. The minister said Hungary’s bilateral relations had been at their peak during the presidency of Donald Trump, adding that Hungary would again like to have “the best ever” political relations with the United States.