JD Vance claims US is not interfering in Hungary election
by Ashifa Kassam in Budapest from World news | The Guardian on (#74SY5)
US vice-president says on visit to Budapest we had to show' support for Viktor Orban, as opposition leads polls
JD Vance has pushed back against claims that the US is interfering in Hungarian politics, describing the accusations as darkly ironic", as a set of polls suggested the opposition Tisza party could win a supermajority in the forthcoming elections.
After spending his first day in Budapest excoriating the EU and accusing it of being behind one of the worst examples" of foreign interference, the US vice-president spent part of Wednesday morning speaking at a thinktank and educational institution linked to Hungary's leader, Viktor Orban.
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