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The former Ukip leader questioned why European leaders were happy to be “attacked and abused” by unelected European Union leaders. Mr Farage, speaking in the European Parliament, sided with under fire Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban, who was facing questions about his leadership. Mr Orban’s leadership has been subject to an 18-month inquiry by MEPs, who suggested his government was a threat to democracy and their European values. Mr Farage said: “Mr Orban, not for the first time, you sit here as the democratically elected leader of a great nation, and you stand up and make a reasoned argument as to how the Hungarians do things.

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“Now, actually, there are different cultures within Europe, and you are prepared again and again to come back here and be attacked and abused by nonentities who want Hungary to bow to their will and not the will of the Hungarian people or its leader. “I am beginning to wonder, at what point sir do you as an intelligent man stop banging your head up against a wall?” The Brexiteer added it was becoming “obvious” EU member states are no longer nations in their own right. Mr Farage slammed the bloc’s interference in France’s presidential election, where European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker publicly endorsed pro-EU candidate Emmanuel Macron in his race against eurosceptic candidate Marine Le Pen.

“The unelected commission have come out and backed this God-like creature called Macron,” he added. “No, you are not the leader of a nation and these people will go on interfering in the lives of Hungarian people.” Mr Farage appealed to the Hungarian leader to follow his campaign for Britain to quit the EU, claiming Mr Orban will always be a “sinner” in the eyes of Brussels. Mr Orban came under pressure from Union bosses after he held a referendum, which prompted Hungarians to vote against migrant quotas introduced by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

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