Govt official: No one can be allowed to disparage Hungarians

No one can be allowed to make disparaging remarks about Hungarians or their democratically-elected government, Levente Magyar, the deputy foreign minister, told public media on Friday. Magyar reacted to a now deleted Facebook post by the CEO of Austrian public broadcaster ORF, Karl Pachner, who had said that Prime Minister Viktor Orban dying of a heart attack would be a "fair thing". Magyar said he had told the charge d'affaires of the Austrian embassy in connection with the matter that the Hungarian government was convinced that a leading figure of Austria's public media had made "especially harsh and outrageous comments" about Hungary's democratically-elected prime minister.