Viktor Orbán: The German government’s program is a world apart from the Hungarian government’s views, and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) is the most anti-Hungarian party in Europe
According to the Prime Minister, the center-right CDU/CSU party alliance is already left-wing, but “interstate relations are more important than relations between parties,” so his government is “compelled to sacrifice” ties with the right-wing opposition party Alternative for Germany (AfD) “on the altar of best possible intergovernmental relations.” “It is a specificity of German democracy that if we were to take steps towards AfD, that would have an impact on intergovernmental relations,” he added.
Orbán said that Germany has become a multicultural society, and Hungarian society is much more pluralistic, freer, and more peaceful than German society. In Germany, a liberal hegemony dominates, meaning that there is room only for a single narrative in the public domain, and anyone who departs from that no longer exists for the members of that public, he explained.