Explanations after the controversy.
Viktor Orban, visiting Austria, defended a Hungarian "cultural point of view" on Thursday after his virulent speech last weekend against "the mixing of races".
"It sometimes happens that I speak in a way that can be misunderstood, but I have asked the Chancellor (Karl Nehammer) to please put the information in a cultural context," said the Hungarian Prime Minister. a press conference in Vienna.
“In Hungary, these expressions and sentences represent a cultural, civilizational point of view”.
Multiplication of anti-migrant outings
The 59-year-old Hungarian nationalist leader, used to blows and fiercely anti-migrants, on Saturday rejected the vision of a "multi-ethnic" society.
"We don't want to be a mixed race", which would mix with "non-Europeans", he had said, before making an apparent allusion to the gas chambers of the Nazi regime, which had earned him strong criticism from the Jewish community and the resignation of a councillor.
Since his return to power in 2010, Viktor Orban has transformed his country by implementing "illiberal" reforms, based on the "defense of a Christian Europe".
In particular, he attacked migrants from Africa and the Middle East and the NGOs that came to their aid, tightening the right to asylum and erecting barriers at the borders.
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Karl Nehammer spoke of this new controversy at the start of the press conference, "strongly condemning all forms of racism and anti-Semitism" and assuring that the two men had addressed the issue "in complete frankness".
“We are in perfect agreement”, reacted Viktor Orban, saying he was “proud” of the policy of “zero tolerance” carried out by Hungary.
