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Orbán calls for Christian freedom
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Hungarians should demonstrate to the world what life based on the ideals of Christian freedom looks like, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Budapest on Saturday.
Addressing a congress of the Federation of Christian Intellectuals, he said that Central Europe was demonstrating the cultural vitality and civilisation stemming from Christianity as against liberal democracies that “have lost their mission”.
Central Europe has managed to repel the attacks of liberals threatening Christian freedom and seeking to give up Europe’s Christian culture. Further, it could halt migration, an external threat to Christian freedom, Orbán said.
Hungary has become a “particular kind of Christian Democratic state” based on a new model of constitutional and political theory through two major changes in regime, the prime minister said.
The first one, the “liberal change in regime”, freed Hungary from oppression and Soviet rule, and produced a liberal democracy that focussed on “freedom from something”, he said.
However, some people, “you before me”, realised that “declaring what we want to be free from is not enough. We should also answer the question of what we want to use our freedom for,” Orbán said.
This is why a “second change in regime, a constitutional revolution based on a two-thirds majority,” followed in 2010, “correcting and giving sense” to the first one, he said.