– “We will win the next election, too. That’s the plan,” Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared in a video interview with Krónika Online.

PM Orban emphasized that he would enter the campaign with healthy and historically-grounded confidence. Now in his twentieth year as prime minister, he said he has won five elections, the last four in a row. The government continues to roll out policies that create opportunities for Hungarians — more and more of them.
Why should we lack confidence? The opposition’s role is to keep breathing down your neck — that’s their job. But what matters is that they do it from behind. So long as that’s the case, there’s no problem,
– he emphasized. He added that the opposition is the same as ever, though the outfit changes. There is always one major national party — currently Fidesz — fighting for the country's independence and historical truth. And there is always a foreign-funded and externally backed, cosmopolitan, and suspect international formation, led by local proxies in the service of foreign interests, that uses outside money and influence to try to seize power.
Goodwill and Wilingness to Cooperate with Romania
Viktor Orban, who traveled to Marosvasarhely to attend the funeral of Elod Kincses, a Transylvanian Hungarian lawyer, publicist, and civil rights activist, also spoke in the interview about his desire to engage in extended talks with Romania’s new president as soon as possible. “There are issues we share within the European Union, and the interests of Romanians and Hungarians often overlap,” he noted. He highlighted that
conditions are favorable for developing bilateral ties because Hungary's EU presidency, which concluded last December, marked a historic breakthrough for Romania — something the Romanian side has also acknowledged.
Officials in Bucharest are well aware of how complex the maneuvering was in European politics to bring Romania into the Schengen Area.
– “They can see that we approach this with goodwill and a willingness to cooperate. So we’re not starting from a bad place — let’s see how things unfold. In any case, I don’t envy this government; they’ve inherited a tough situation, especially in economic terms. They’ll need every bit of their expertise to manage the current economic climate so that Romanian citizens come through it with as little damage as possible. I wish them success,” Mr. Orban said.