{"id":5272,"date":"2022-04-06T06:56:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T05:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2025-06-11T06:58:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:58:56","slug":"vaclav-klaus-congratulates-viktor-orban-on-his-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/2022\/04\/06\/vaclav-klaus-congratulates-viktor-orban-on-his-election-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"V\u00e1clav Klaus congratulates Viktor Orb\u00e1n on his election victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Czechia\/Hungary \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Former Czech Prime Minister and President V\u00e1clav Klaus has sent\u00a0a letter to his friend Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u00a0to warmly congratulate him on his fourth consecutive electoral victory.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>\u201cA victory in the contemporary fight over the future of the Western world\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>\u201c<em>Let me express my congratulations on your persuasive victory in yesterday\u2019s elections. Not only my congratulations, but my great joy as well.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It\u2019s not only an election victory, it is a victory \u2013 regretfully not a final one \u2013 in the contemporary fight over the future of the Western world.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>It is a victory of yours, a victory of your nation and country, a victory of all of us.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>\u201cThis victory will make it possible for you to speak more loudly in Europe\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>I am convinced that this victory will make it possible for you to speak more loudly in Europe, which is something Europe (meaning the EU) needs now more than ever before.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Your victory is also essential for Central and Eastern Europe, where the recent progressivist offensive in some countries undermines the much needed Visegrad Group cooperation.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4><strong>\u201cA victory which is essential for Central and Eastern Europe\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Last but not least, your voice of reason is of great importance in the current European debate about the war in Ukraine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dear Mr. Prime Minister, once again, please accept my sincere congratulations.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I look forward to coming to Budapest in the middle of May to attend the postponed Conservative conference. It will be great to get a chance to meet you. It will be great to have the opportunity to meet you.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Photo : Wikimedia \/ DerHuti (CC BY-SA 3.0)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Czechia\/Hungary \u2013\u00a0Former Czech Prime Minister and President V\u00e1clav Klaus has sent\u00a0a letter to his friend Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u00a0to warmly congratulate him on his fourth consecutive electoral victory. \u201cA victory in the contemporary fight over the future of the Western world\u201d \u201cLet me express my congratulations on your persuasive victory in yesterday\u2019s elections. Not only my congratulations,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"acf":{"subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}