US Vice President J.D. Vance is on an official visit to Hungary from April 7 to 8. This is the highest-ranking US official’s visit to the country in 20 years. The White House intends the visit to demonstrate its clear political support for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ahead of the April 12 parliamentary elections.
According to the program, Vance will meet with Orbán and then speak at the “Hungarian-American Friendship Day” event, which is considered an important signal of rapprochement between the two political camps.
Viktor Orbán’s election campaign is based on a foreign policy agenda that emphasizes his personal ties with both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. The prime minister presents himself as a guarantor of Hungary’s stability and “course of peace.”
