Politico trashed interview with Hungarian President due to her too conservative answers?

Katalin Novák, Hungary’s President, gave an interview to Australia’s only nationally distributed daily, The Australian. In the interview, she said that it was hard to be a conservative leader in Europe and that media and politicians spread fake news about Hungary. She added that once Politico did an interview with her, but because of her non-liberal, too conservative replies, they trashed it.

Népszava wrote that the President’s press office confirmed that Politico made the interview. “It is hard to accept this type of liberalism”, the Hungarian President shared about the issue. She highlighted she wanted to show the world what it was like to be a conservative female leader.

Novák said Hungary stood by freedom, family and Christian tradition. In the interview, appearing in the paper’s weekend edition, Novák rejected any suggestion that Hungary was anti-Semitic, pointing to the people from various political parties and other groups who came together in solidarity at the Dohány Street synagogue in Budapest to support Israel after it was attacked by Hamas.

Hungary has a “zero-tolerance” policy for anti-Semitism, she said. Addressing the Western media’s depiction of Hungary and Hungarians as anti-democratic, Novák put down such misunderstandings to the fact that most journalists don’t speak Hungarian, and that Hungary’s position doesn’t always fit the mainstream, liberal narrative.

President Novák: mother, a wife, a Hungarian and a Christian

Novák said in the interview that she was defined by being a mother, a wife, a Hungarian and a Christian, adding that she wanted to serve as an example of a conservative woman leader.

She stressed the importance of addressing the demographic crisis and said her task as a conservative head of state was to do everything possible to make it easier for families who wanted children to have them. That means allowing women to choose both motherhood and a career, she added. Novák acknowledged Australia for taking in Hungarian refugees decades earlier and giving them a “second home”.

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