Tamás Menczer, the Fidesz-Christian Democrats communications director, said on Monday: "We Hungarians are not with Zelensky! We don't want to ruin our country for the sake of Ukraine!"
The ruling party politician said in a post on Facebook that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky liked to quote a survey by the opposition Tisza Party suggesting that 58 percent of Hungarians backed Ukraine's EU membership. He added that Zelensky even exaggerated the polling numbers and claimed that 70 percent of Hungarians supported Ukraine.
Menczer said, however, that "we Hungarians are not with Zelensky!"
"We are providing all possible humanitarian aid and commend the heroic stand of Ukrainians, but we don't want to destroy our country for the sake of Ukraine," he added.
He insisted that Ukraine, should it acquire EU membership, would present multiple dangers.
Referring to a "plan" to cut Hungary off from Russian oil and gas, he said the price of household utilities would skyrocket.
"For us, Hungary comes first!" he said, urging compatriots to fill out the Vote 2025 ballot in the remaining five days left to do so.