Angela Merkel (CDU) and Horst Seehofer (CSU) Photo: MTI

In his letter to Merkel, Orbán said that the election results show the European citizen’s commitment towards a policy built on conservative values which can ensure safety and economic stability, Bertalan Havasi said.

“I trust we can cooperate along these common values to further develop Hungarian-German relations and to resolve the challenges facing our continent”, Havasi cited Orbán as saying in his letter.

In his congratulatory letter to Horst Seehofer, the minister president of the federal state of Bavaria, Orbán thanked him for the “excellent cooperation of the past years” and said that he was looking forward to further strengthening German-Hungarian and Bavarian-Hungarian ties. “I wish you success in bringing the right wing together along our shared principles,” Havasi cited the letter as saying.

The centre-right coalition of the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union won 33% of the votes at the German parliamentary elections on Sunday.