Breaking – there will be no compulsory vaccination in Hungary!
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PM Viktor Orbán said that in his regular Friday morning interview. He highlighted the importance of protection against the coronavirus on Friday, and said that “it is better to get a booster jab than not to get it”.
A booster is available to anyone within two weeks of registration, no matter where they live in the country, Orbán told public Kossuth Rádió. The severity of the fourth wave of the coronavirus epidemic will depend on the country’s vaccination rate, he added. People who refuse to get vaccinated are in danger of getting infected, he said.
Regarding the protests that followed former PM Ferenc Gyurcsány’s Őszöd speech leaked exactly 15 years ago, he said that people were “not only beaten and left in blood”, the then government also “deceived voters and ruled against them”, coupled with economic measures. The speech by then Prime Minister Gyurcsány
was a “terrifying moment”
of Hungarian politics, Orbán said, adding that Gyurcsány had “created that situation, he delivered the speech, lied to the people and came to power through lies, took people’s money and then drove the country to bankruptcy” yet “he has remained the leader of the Left until this day”. “This is not past tense but the past still living with us and which keeps trying to return,” he said.
He insisted that the Socialist-Liberal government had stripped the elderly of their thirteen month’s pension and stopped supporting families, while they “doubled, tripled” the price of household gas and electricity. The incumbent government, however, “returned all” with a re-established family assistance system, reintroduced housing subsidies and wage hikes, the prime minister said. “Once pensioners get back their 13th month pensions,
we can say that we have left behind the whole Őszöd speech,”
he added.
Orbán highlighted the significance of the government’s recent National Consultation public survey, and said that “a difficult decade is ahead of us; we will have migration and epidemics and we need to get prepared and it is good if the people are given an opportunity to indicate what are the solid points they insist on”. Concerning topics in the survey, Orbán mentioned minimum wages, Hungary’s capability to produce coronavirus vaccines, as well as the issue of families. Elaborating on the latter, he said that the European Parliament “would transfer the education of children from parents to political activists, an endeavour we must oppose”. He also called for standing the course against the EU over migration and support for Hungary’s rights and sovereignty.
Orbán highlighted the significance of the government’s recent National Consultation public survey, and said that “a difficult decade is ahead of us; we will have migration and epidemics and we need to get prepared and it is good if the people are given an opportunity to indicate what are the solid points they insist on”. Concerning topics in the survey, Orbán mentioned minimum wages, Hungary’s capability to produce coronavirus vaccines, as well as the issue of families. Elaborating on the latter, he said that the European Parliament “would transfer the education of children from parents to political activists, an endeavour we must oppose”. He also called for standing the course against the EU over migration and support for Hungary’s rights and sovereignty.