Orbán announced national consultation on issue Tisza already refuted

Next year’s election is about trust, too, and the opposition has suffered a complete loss of trust, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a speech at an event in Kötcse, in western Hungary, organised by the Foundation for a Civic Hungary on Sunday.

At the event, Orbán said the government would launch a National Consultation survey on the opposition Tisza Party’s leaked tax plans (which the Tisza Party dismissed on multiple occasions). Orbán said the opposition had brought “secrecy and stealth” to the political season and warned that those “who walk in twilight and darkness have bad intentions”.

“We have always done what we said and said what we have done,” Orbán said, highlighting the government’s steps to “send home” the IMF, create one million jobs, keep Hungary free of migrants, stay out of the war, protect children, support families, cut taxes and reintroduce the annual pensioners’ bonus.

He said the trust earned in this way was the reason the governing alliance had won serial elections. “What we promised, we delivered, that is what makes up the essence of politics, which is confidence,” Orbán said. Concerning his opponents, he said “Gyurcsány and his people were more clever, they only revealed after the election that they had deceived voters, while Tisza made it public before an election.” “They are offering their own head on a silver tray … why not accept it,” he added.

Orbán said that political parties that had lost the trust of voters “have nothing left but provocation” and noted opposition Tisza’s rally held earlier in the day at Kotcse, where ruling Fidesz has held its annual meetings for years. “They come here, because nobody believes what they say any more, but if they come here, there will be tension, a conflict … that is what they have left; we need to be prepared that this will be their policy for the next seven months,” he added.