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Flora Garamvolgyi and Shaun Walker in Budapest

Alarm grows as Orban prepares to take ‘pure Nazi’ rhetoric to US

Viktor Orbán
Viktor Orbán appeared to backtrack on his comments last week, saying it was ‘a cultural problem’. Photograph: Michael Gruber/Getty Images

A longstanding adviser to Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán who resigned last week has warned him that his far-right rhetoric could have tragic consequences.

The Hungarian leader sparked a backlash at home and abroad with a recent speech in which he spoke out against “race mixing”. Soon after, Zsuzsa Hegedüs, a sociologist who has known Orbán for 20 years, handed in her resignation, criticising the prime minister for what she called a “pure Nazi” speech.

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