Hungarian ‘shadow PM’: Strong Europe needed
Klára Dobrev, the leader of the opposition Democratic Coalition, Socialist and Párbeszéd parties for the EP elections, said she wanted European wages, pensions and health care, at the three parties’ joint celebration of International Labour Day and the 20th anniversary of Hungary’s EU accession, in Budapest on Wednesday.
“I want a strong Europe, one that is able to care for all Hungarian people, even if it requires defending them against the [incumbent] government,” Dobrev said in City Park, arguing that “Hungary’s EU membership and the prestige of labour are under attack from the right.”
“Although Hungary is there, in Europe, the country has been shamed, Hungarians have the lowest wages and pensions in Europe, their country has the worst level of health-care services and the level of public education has deteriorated most here while the family circles of [Prime Minister] Viktor Orbán have stolen the unprecedented amount of money pouring onto the country,” she said. “This must be stopped,” the DK politician said.
The Hungarian government, Dobrev said, had also intimidated Hungarian workers by threatening “to replace them with cheaper foreign labour if they dare to complain”.
“Only a left-wing, green, social-democrat government will be able to pull Hungary out of this nightmare,” she said, urging opposition parties to join forces.
Gergely Karácsony, the mayor of Budapest and a Párbeszéd politician, said that “twenty years after Hungary’s EU accession, the tone of the anniversary’s celebration is bitter-sweet”. “Although we must value and should not forget that we are a member of Europe’s most peaceful and most progressive political alliance, we must also see that the other countries that joined 20 years ago along with Hungary have made better use of the opportunity to lift their nation,” he said.
The EU, Karácsony said, was not perfect either. “It is not strong enough, gives too much to the elite and too little to the people,” the mayor said, adding that “we want a stronger Europe, because we believe in the notion that only a stronger Europe could ensure Hungary’s national sovereignty”.
“A parasite state will never use EU funds in a smart way,” Karácsony said. “Those monies are missing from the education and health-care sectors, from the city of Budapest and the smallest Hungarian villages. The state must be changed, service must be chosen instead of ruling over a country.”
Imre Komjáthi of the Socialists pledged to strengthen trade unions, “which are the immune system of working people and society”.
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She wants Hungary to become a post-national, post-democratic province in a new globalist-socialist world order.
She wants Hungary to be flooded with tens of thousands of misogynistic, homophobic, anti-Semitic, violent, uneducated, self-entitled illegal aliens who will rape our women (and children), drive violent crime through the roof, and make us a minority in our own cities.
She wants our energy bills to become unaffordable so we are shivering in our homes in winter and sweltering in summer.
She wants to price us out of being able to drive or fly. She wants us to have to eat dried bugs.
She wants to normalize men being women, women being men, and impressionable, confused kids having life-altering hormone treatments and surgeries.
And she want to criminalize our ability to say NO to any or this.
I don’t know why these “opposition” parties don’t just say “Soros György” on their posters and paste his ugly mug on them. Or Klaus Schwab’s. Because they are the ones who would truly get in power if the likes of ol’ Klara here would get elected.
Take a hike, lady. Hungary is not for sale to the globalist-socialist elites and their patsies!!!