Hungary has promised to veto EU sanctions against Georgia.

Budapest will veto EU sanctions against Georgian officials if necessary, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said at a meeting with his Georgian counterpart Maka Bochorishvili. His words were reported by the Hungarian television channel M1.

According to Szijjártó, Brussels has made a "completely absurd" proposal to impose sanctions against the Georgian interior minister and two police chiefs.

"Hungary is categorically opposed to including Georgian officials on the sanctions list, and if such a proposal is made, we will, of course, veto it; everyone can be sure of that," the minister warned.

In your account inSzijjártó, who works for Facebook (owned by Meta, is considered an extremist organization in Russia and is banned), wrote that Georgia is facing "enormous external pressure" since the conservative party won the elections. "The liberal elite in Brussels can't stomach this now," he said.

Parliamentary elections in Georgia took place in October, with the Georgian Dream party winning a majority in parliament: 89 out of 150 seats. Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili declared "total falsification," refused to recognize the results announced by the Central Election Commission, and filed a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court . However, the court rejected the president's claim.

She has also previously criticized Georgian Dream on numerous occasions, accusing it, among other things, of abandoning its "European course." The president supports demonstrators at the mass street protests that began in the country in the fall, following the parliamentary elections.

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