President Elect U.S. broke with tradition, inviting planet leaders for the swearing-in ceremony. president Javier Milei and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni are expected to appear in Washington.
The invitation was besides received by Orban, whose government, long before the November presidential election in the US, openly supported Trump, even at the expense of cool relations with the Joe Biden administration. During his visits to the United States, the Prime Minister of Hungary visited Trump at his property in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
A spokesperson for the Hungarian government comments on Trump's inauguration
"The U.S. presidential inauguration is traditionally an event celebrating a peaceful transfer of power, not a gathering of abroad dignitaries," he wrote on the X Zoltan Kovacs portal, a spokesperson for the Hungarian government.
According to him, no planet leader received a "official" invitation to the inauguration.
‘Anyone who participates in it does so at a individual invitation alternatively than in any authoritative capacity, due to the fact that it is not an chance for formal talks or meetings, but serves a completely different purpose“ Kovacs added.
On Monday, the day Trump was sworn in as the next president of the United States, Orban will be present in Budapest at the conference summarising the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, which ended at the end of last year, reported Havasi.
