Orbán said one of the biggest issues at stake in the upcoming local elections is whether a mayor is elected in a given locality who is capable of working together with the central government.

“For cooperation you need trust. What doesn’t work is one day we cry out about dictatorship, blaspheme the government and give it a bad name abroad, and the next day we say that we should cooperate because it’s about money,” he said, adding that voters should choose politicians who can work together honestly with the current government.

Asked about strong criticism of government measures over the past few weeks from the United States and the European Union, Orban said: “They have said the same thing sixteen times, louder and louder, and if they are not right then it won’t disturb me when they say it a seventeenth time.

If they condemn Hungary excessively often and in a way that is far from the truth, after a while no one will pay any attention to them. These are the times we live in.”

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