JAKARTA - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni congratulated Peter Magyar after the pro-European Union Tisza Party won the Hungarian parliamentary election.
Meloni also expressed his gratitude to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose 16-year term as the country's leader ended.
"Congratulations to Peter Magyar on his landslide victory in the general election. The Italian government congratulates you on taking office," Meloni said via X social media, reported by ANTARA from ANSA, Monday, April 13.
"I thank my friend Viktor Orban for the intense cooperation over the years, and I know he will continue to serve the country from the opposition as well," he added.
Meloni explained that Italy and Hungary are countries bound by deep friendship ties.
He believes that the two countries will continue to work together in a constructive spirit for the benefit of the people and to face common challenges at the European and global levels.
The leader of the left-center Italian Democratic Party (PD), Elly Schlein, said the results of the Hungarian election were a defeat for Meloni, the head of the right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party and for US President Donald Trump.
"The era of the right-wing sovereignty is over," Schlein told La7 TV station. "Freedom, democracy and the desire for Europe have won".
"Orban lost, and with him, Trump, Meloni, and (Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Transport and League leader Matteo) Salvini lost with their shameful videos supporting Orban and his autocracy," he said.
According to him, the news from Hungary is really amazing. "This is a wind of hope and change", he said.
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