Gulyás: US move to sanction Rogán is ‘a petty act of revenge’

The United States’ move to sanction Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office chief Antal Rogán is “a petty act of revenge” by outgoing US Ambassador David Pressman and the Democratic administration, said Gergely Gulyás.

Gergely Gulyás, Head of the Prime Minister’s Office, has called the United States’ move to sanction Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office chief Antal Rogán “a petty act of revenge” by outgoing US Ambassador David Pressman and the Democratic administration.

Gulyás, told MTI by phone that the decision to place Rogán on a sanctions list was “further proof that the outgoing US administration and ambassador want to exact revenge for Hungary and the Hungarian government having supported Donald Trump in the election campaign”. He added that Trump had referenced the Hungarian government and Orban as positive examples more than he had any other foreign politician.

But Gulyás underlined that Pressman and the outgoing Democratic administration were “the past” when it came to Hungary-US relations.

Gulyás said the “petty and baseless act of revenge that will not be in effect for more than a few weeks” would be “a reminder that the United States had an ambassador who, in violation of his official duties and ignoring the Vienna Convention had done everything to oust the government rather than striving to establish good relations with the host country”.