Elections in Hungary. Schlein: time for right-wingers over. Renzi: 'Orban ko, Meloni magic touch'

"Now Meloni has no more excuses, why doesn't she do a common battle for European investments, until now she didn't do it because Orban and Trump didn't like them". This was said by Pd secretary Elly Schlein interviewed on In onda on La7.

'I hope Meloni learns a lesson from this vote and moves on,' he added. "These are wonderful and emotional images. The time of sovereignisms and sovereignist right-wingers is over. Freedom, democracy and the desire for Europe have won.

Orbán lost and with him Trump lost, and Meloni and Salvini lost with their embarrassing videos supporting Orbán and his autocracy. It is wonderful news coming from Hungary,' said the PD secretary.

"And after sixteen years Orbán goes KO. After Canada and Australia, here is the Trump effect also in Hungary. But let's not underestimate also the Meloni magic touch, now King Midas in reverse. Our premier supported the anti-Europeans in Poland, Spain and Hungary: three times her protégés lost. Europe wins, Midas loses. What a wonderful Sunday!" Italia Viva leader Matteo Renzi writes this on his social media.

"The Hungarians have made their choice: Viktor Orbán has been defeated. It is the end of a political cycle that has challenged the basic principles of European democracy for years. Today's is a setback also for those sovereignists and extremists in Italia who in recent years have pointed to Orbán as a political reference: Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini, who have built an axis with the Hungarian leader, legitimising his authoritarian drifts and anti-democratic choices, systematically hostile to the European project". So says Sandro Gozi, MEP for Renew Europe and secretary general of the European Democrats. "These elections," Gozi continues, "mark the sunset of a system of power built on the compression of the rule of law, on the control of pluralism and on a permanent opposition to Europe. A model that for years has been indicated, even in Europe, as an alternative. The Hungarian vote is also a response to the interference of Vladimir Putin and that international political network that, starting with Donald Trump, has fuelled and legitimised this drift. Hungarians have chosen freedom and European belonging. They have said that Europe is not a constraint to be circumvented, but a political community to be strengthened. It is a message that resonates far beyond Budapest and challenges all pro-European forces'. "Now a new phase opens, and it will not be easy. The Union must be equal to this passage: more political, more courageous, more capable of protecting and promoting the rule of law. European democracy is not defended with celebrations. It is defended every day, in each of its Member States,' Gozi concluded.

"Extraordinary news for the whole of Europe and its future: the Hungarians, with an extraordinary proof of democratic participation, have decreed the electoral defeat of the tyrant Orban, the enemy of the European Union and the rule of law, who had chosen to side with the Russian invader and against the freedom of Ukrainians. Orban can now only hope that the anti-democratic traps sown over the years will prevent the new majority from governing and returning to a positive and constructive role in Brussels. The EU will have to guarantee all possible support for Magyar. Meloni chose to support Orban publicly, together with Salvini of course, but together with Trump and Putin. At a moment that was clearly decisive, she chose and shared the anti-liberal and anti-European political identity of the Hungarian leader censured by European institutions for his attacks on the rule of law. That is why tonight the defeat is also of the President of the Council'. This was written in a tweet by +Europa deputy Benedetto Della Vedova.

'Goodbye forever Mr.Orban': a smiling Ilaria Salis shows the sign in a photo on her social media. The Avs MEP comments on Orban's defeat: 'Not a victory for the left, but at least a very heavy defeat of the global extreme right and - we hope - the end of a regime. Hungary and Europe will be better places without Orban. Sorry for Meloni and Salvini. See you never again'.

'A great day for Europe and for those who want to keep Russia away from us! Congratulations to Magyar and the Hungarian people. Forward." This was written on X by the leader of Azione, Carlo Calenda, commenting on the outcome of the elections in Hungary with the defeat of Viktor Orban.