Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader Giorgia Meloni on Friday stood by her right-wing group’s decision to vote against a European Parliament motion on Thursday declaring that Hungary can no longer be considered a full democracy and has become an “electoral autocracy”.
The MEPs of Matteo Salvini’s League, the FdI’s allies in centre-right coalition that is tipped to win Italy’s general election on September 25, also voted against the motion.
“We are talking about a situation in which all the Hungarian parties, including those in the opposition to (Prime Minister) Viktor Orban, were indignant about this EU document,” Meloni, who is favourite to become Italy’s next premier with FdI the top party in the polls, told RAI radio.
“Do you think it’s really a dictatorship? I recall everyone that Orban won the elections.
“Orban is a gentleman who won the elections several times according to the rules of the Constitution, with all the rest against him.
“So it is a democratic system”.