By Marc Jones and Gergely Szakacs

LONDON/BUDAPEST (Reuters) -The benefit to Hungary’s credit rating of any potential U.S. financial backstop package remains difficult to factor in, Fitch has said, and should be unnecessary given the country’s uninterrupted access to borrowing markets.

Erich Arispe, Head of Emerging Europe Sovereign Ratings at Fitch, also said last week’s increase in Budapest’s deficit forecast had been bigger than expected, but that it hadn’t been large enough to alarm markets so far.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who faces a tight election next year, held a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this month.

The 62-year-old secured a year-long exemption from sanctions related to Russian oil and gas purchases, but also said he had shaken hands on a pl

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