Harsh speeches at Orbán’s party’s 30th congress
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Addressing the 30th congress of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz in Budapest on Saturday, Máté Kocsis, the party’s parliamentary group leader, said Fidesz’s aim was to “leave behind a stronger, more protected and better country than the one we inherited”.
Kocsis congratulated Fidesz on its victory in the 2022 general election, hailing its defeat of “every chapter of [Democratic Coalition leader Ferenc] Gyurcsány’s party”.
Speaking about the opposition, he said “Ferenc Gyurcsány’s people . have done everything possible against their homeland in Brussels”. He said the opposition had “tried getting into power using the money of billionaires, and to this day we don’t know what they promised in return for the dollars [they were donated]”.
The “members of the dollar left”, he said, “regularly ignore Hungarian interests while following foreign orders in domestic politics”. “They really do dance to the tune of Soros and the Brussels elite,” he added.
“We will protect our country’s sovereignty, we will act against any attempted foreign influence operation, even amending the relevant laws,” Kocsis said.
The protection of Hungary’s sovereignty will be guaranteed by the Fundamental Law, all entities contesting elections will be subject to the same rules, and accepting foreign campaign donations will be punishable by up to three years in prison, he said.
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Speaker: ‘This is our country and we will preserve it’
Addressing a congress of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party on Saturday, Speaker of Parliament László Kövér said: “This is our country, and we will preserve it for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren.” Assessing the events of the two years since Fidesz’s last congress, Kövér noted the outbreak of the war between Russia and Ukraine, and the 11 sanctions packages approved by the European Union in response. He said the sanctions had ended up hurting the European economy rather than the Russian, and had also failed to bring an end to the conflict, “much to the delight of those with arms and oil business interests”.
He said that in response to the formation of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s fifth government, “the federalists in Brussels are trying to outsource the country’s independent judiciary . to all kinds of agencies while trying to rob us of our money”.
The EU has failed to integrate either Turkiye or any of the Western Balkan countries awaiting membership, and “there’s an inpouring of millions of conquerors disguised as refugees”, Kövér said. Meanwhile, he added, Europe was two years closer “to its own elimination”.
“A golden age has come to an end, being replaced by inflation and economic and income contraction,” the speaker said.
At the same time, employment and investments are rising, giving hope for the start of a new boom period, he added.
“We haven’t got any younger, but we are, perhaps, happier, and possibly even a bit wiser,” Kövér said.