BUDAPEST, Jun 2 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that «a lot and strongly» prayed for the victory of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the presidential elections in Turkey.
«(Erdogan's victory in the elections -) is a huge relief. To be honest, I not only 'cheered' for the president's victory, I prayed for it, strongly and a lot. If he hadn't won, it would have been a tragedy,» Orban said on radio Kossuth.
According to him, if «the man of George Soros» won the presidential elections in Turkey, this would mean an increase in the migration flow of refugees to Europe by two or three million at once, and would also complicate the transit of Russian oil to Hungary and Serbia.
Earlier, Orban announced that he would take part in Erdogan's inauguration ceremony on June 3.
Single Republican Alliance candidate led by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) Recep Tayyip Erdogan was re-elected as President of Turkey, he won more than 52% of the vote, head of the High Electoral Commission Ahmet said on Thursday Yener, announcing the final results of the second round of the presidential election. Erdogan's rival, the only candidate from the opposition «People's Alliance» Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu won 47.82% of the vote.