Jobbik organized its third meeting of intellectuals

The opposition Jobbik party organized its meeting of intellectuals, the Disputa (Dispute), for the third time this year, which always begins with a presentation of Gábor Vona, whereafter the audience is free to ask questions and start conversations with the party leader. The Dispute of this year was organized in Soltvadkert again with a number of selected guests.

This time more than 200 guest were present, including union leaders, doctors, company leaders, leading sportsmen, lawyers, economists, artists, experts on education, healthcare and agriculture.

Gábor Vona stated that there seems to be a repressed expectation, a hidden will looking forward to change in the Hungarian society, which also shows itself in recent surveys. Still, there are many ongoing discussions about how a changing of the government should be supported by more media interfaces, a new electoral law, or the co-operation among opposition parties. According to him, the only possibility for a government-changing party is to show strength against strength, credibility against the lack of credibility.

Hereafter he spoke about the strong and the weak side of Fidesz. The strength of the ruling party lies in the designing of their political system and all the networking done in the last years. Besides them, the only one doing the same was Jobbik, since their founding in 2003. MSZP, on the contrary, only exhausted its options. As the weakness of Fidesz, Vona mentioned its lack of credibility. According to him, for credibility one needs an inspiring vision and a reasonable platform to reach it. Fidesz had an inspiring vision, the vision of Polgári Magyarország (a Civic Hungary), and they raised its flag, only to discard it thereafter together with the civic, conservative, Christian intelligentsia belonging to it. Fidesz’s slogan of before ‘the future has begun’ became a harsh reality of ‘the past came back’ – stated the Prime Minister candidate of Jobbik, according to whom Hungary became an obsessive, visceral country instead of becoming the Civic Hungary promised. He regards Orbán the last leader of the 20th century instead of being the first of the 21th century, whose biggest sin is that he holds the country in the 20th century with all his typical 20th-century-reflexes. What is really at stake in the elections of 2018 is not the choice between Putin and the EU, Orbán and Soros, but the choice to transgress finally into the 21th century.

There were more than 200 participants on the meeting of intellectuals – photo: Klaudia Kiriák

Hereafter he identified the diagnosis and the platform with which he plans to bring about a change.

The symptoms of Hungary being in the 20th century are as follows:

• Visceral
• Obsessive
• Divisive
• Making-people-happy (they are the ones who decide what makes you happy)
• It is dominated by feudal constraints and privileges (Viktor Orbán’s visit at aunt Bözsi)
• Tries to penetrate deep down into human consciousness to use the instincts found there for political purposes
• Fear
• Financial dependence
• Uninformedness

By contrast, the Hungarian society of the 21th century should be like this:

• Led by common sense
• Unifying
• Gives freedom to choose one’s own definition of being happy
• The country is the country of possibilities
• Doesn’t penetrate into human consciousness, but only seeks to help them to reach higher
• Ensures opportunities
• Courage, autonomy
• Financial independence
• Motivating the conscious choosing among options instead of keeping everyone uninformed