Orbán: Hungary’s government can’t be blackmailed

Foreign economic and political interest groups led by [US billionaire George] Soros would like to see a weak Hungarian government in place that can be blackmailed, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Wednesday.

Due to crisis management after 2010 and efforts to put energy service providers, some banks and a part of the German-owned media under national control, the government ceased to be exposed to blackmail, Orbán said at a meeting of ruling Fidesz and KDNP party lawmakers in Visegrád, in northern Hungary, on Wednesday evening.

“No country can be independent in the absence of a national media. Nor can it be independent, if it can be blackmailed by financial means,” Orbán said, as quoted by national daily Magyar Idők.

For this reason, the stake of the forthcoming general election in April is whether Hungary will have an independent government or one that can be blackmailed. The latter would give up national independence and let Hungary be transformed into a migrant country, he said.

Quoting a foreign statesman, Orbán said that hopelessness generates hatred.

He added that the opposition is expected to launch a hate campaign in the 50 days to come.

“This is their only message. They want to hunt down all of us because we stand in the way of those who want to turn Hungary into a migrant country and Europe into a migrant continent,” he said.