Child protection referendum about “not to let the fox into the hen house”, said Orbán

As regards the referendum on Hungary’s child protection law held simultaneously with the election, PM Viktor Orbán said today that at stake in it would be “not to let the fox into the hen house”.

“The nature of this gender insanity is that its advocates cannot be taken seriously at first,” Orbán said. “It is not about a passing fad but about well-organised forces working to promote certain concepts on life,” Orbán said, adding that those forces were “powerful western European human rights NGOs with all the various Soros-backed organisations among them”.

Hungary is a free country where adults live the way they want within the confines of the law, Orbán said.

“Nobody wants to force anything onto them, but there must be a red line drawn which is the question of raising children,”

Orbán said. It is parents who have the sole responsibility of deciding how they want “to educate their children about how to live a happy life”.

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Speaking about the Hungarian political left, Orbán said their position was clear. “They are aligned with the European progressive left which represents the other side in the growing cultural alienation in Europe”. They call their approach “Western”, which Orbán said was “mistaken”, arguing that on the issues of immigration, family and the nation,

the left “is on the others side, not on the side of the Hungarian majority”.

Orbán said the left had an agenda “so markedly different” from what the Hungarian majority wanted that such a gap could not be bridged with a single political campaign. “This is why they need to involve outside resources in an effort to achieve their goal which is to come into power,” he said. But “outside resources always have their price which, if paid, would cost Hungary losing a significant part of its independence”, he added.

He said it was impossible to find a remedy for the left’s problem, suggesting to them that they should either “change sides, stand on the side of Hungarians and accept at least parts of their majority view on life, or give up their ambition to gain a majority”.

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Commenting on the record number of observers assigned by the OSCE to monitor the April 3 ballot, Orbán said “these Western institutions of peace have become institutions of war”. He said their activity no longer constituted “monitoring” but was instead aimed at “preparing accusations well in advance against political forces who stand a good chance of winning, but whom they don’t like”.

“We, however, must calmly answer every question, and because we are right, we must demonstrate this to them.”

Concerning the possible outcome of Sunday’s ballot, the prime minister expressed optimism, stressing however the need to increase efforts in the next couple of days. “The race is not over, turnout will decide the outcome, and anything can still happen,” Orbán said.

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Source: MTI