EP election – Orbán urges voters to cast ballot for ‘Hungary’s, Europe’s future’

“All for whom the future of Hungary and Europe counts” must turn up at the polls in the European parliamentary elections on Sunday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview published in daily Magyar Nemzet and local papers on Saturday.

“All that support migration will be there; let us be there, too!” Orbán said in his interview. He added that Hungary’s future weight in the European Union will be determined “by the decision of Hungarian voters on Sunday”.

“Migration is the most important issue for Europe’s future, whether we can preserve the continent’s cultural identity, its civilisation based on Christian foundations,” Orbán said, and added that “voters will be able to stop migration if they send anti-migration deputies to Brussels.”

“Brussels is making a very strong effort to change the whole of Europe,” Orbán said, and argued that “some politicians, parties, government, business circles, academic networks and centres think that Europe should leave Christian culture and the whole history of nationalism behind and set up a United States of Europe instead, an empire of mixed population in which neither Christian nor national identity means anything.” He added that those efforts have advocates in Hungary, too, “they are the ones that, following the Brussels example, seek to manage migration rather than stemming it”.

Orbán went on to say that Europe’s left wing “wants a mixed population” in Europe because “they seek to eliminate nations”, even though “Europe’s success is made by successful nation states”.

Concerning the Hungarian opposition, Orbán said “if Hungary had had a leftist government in recent years, our cities would look like some in Germany or France, with hundreds of thousands of migrants from Africa or the Middle East.” He said Hungary’s opposition politicians should “at last realise that the country’s having a very stable, patriotic and Christian government is not just an accident but comes from its cultural identity”. “This is the foundation, this is the Hungarian world, the goals and endeavours of which are embodied by its government of which I am the leader,” he insisted.