Orbán against Orbán: open letter ignites political tension in Hungary “Shame on you!”

Former long-serving Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has published an open letter sharply criticising new Foreign Minister Anita Orbán, prompting a strong response from Prime Minister Péter Magyar.

On May 25, Orbán posted the “open letter” on Facebook, presenting it as a message to Anita Orbán on behalf of ministers from the previous government.

In the letter, she is accused of remaining silent during her years within the Foreign Ministry system and only now criticising former senior officials over alleged corruption.

“On behalf of all your former government colleagues, we reject your insidious, self-justifying, and entirely baseless propaganda slanders. The fact that you reached the peak of your career—the ministerial armchair—by switching sides to our political opponents and betraying us is your own matter. God will judge that. But to then turn back and accuse and defame those with whom you worked side by side for years is such a dishonourable act that it compelled us to write this open letter. In short: you should be ashamed of yourself,” the letter read.

“Every sin has its punishment. We saw how you stood cautiously behind your new boss during the trip to the Carmelite Monastery, looking down to hide your shame,” Orbán continued, adding that ministers of the Hungarian government will have to “endure public and repeated humiliation” from the prime minister and can now “enjoy the disgrace.”

In response, Magyar wrote on Facebook that the letter reflects cowardice due to the absence of named authors.

“Those who betrayed our country and the Hungarian people for years are now calling Hungary’s deputy prime minister a traitor… They have attacked a female minister who, unlike Péter Szijjártó, is not protected by sixty agents paid with Hungarian taxpayers’ money,” Magyar said.

He added that those criticising Anita Orbán are “the very people who handed our remarkable country over to foreigners on a silver platter, those who invited Russian hackers and foreign agents for help.”

“Dear cowards, nameless mafiosi! Do not touch or attempt to smear Anita Orbán! Do not do the dirty work yourselves—tell your defeated boss, who cowardly fled and hides behind women’s skirts, that I am here. And if he has something to say to me or our citizens, let him gather the courage, play his cards, and take responsibility for his actions,” Magyar added.

By Jeyhun Aghazada