Orban expressed optimism after the election victory of the French far-right

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expressed "optimism" after France's far-right National Assembly party won the first round of parliamentary elections. Orban said voters want "change".
President Emmanuel Macron's centrist party finished in third place, behind the left-wing New Popular Front, AFP reported.
Orbán's comments came as Hungary took over the EU's rotating presidency.
"Things in Brussels cannot continue like this, things must change. That's why the Belgian prime minister fell, that's why the French government fell," the Prime Minister said.
"The first source of our optimism is that people want change. But the bureaucrats in Brussels think otherwise, they don't want change. But this strengthens our optimism because it makes the fact that change is necessary even more obvious," he added .
Orban has long spoken out against what he calls the "Brussels elite", recently accusing the EU of fueling the war in Ukraine.
Hungary has vowed to use its EU presidency to push its "vision for Europe" under the slogan "Make Europe Great Again". | BGNES