Orbán announced national consultation on issue Tisza already refuted
Next year’s election is about trust, too, and the opposition has suffered a complete loss of trust, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a speech at an event in Kötcse, in western Hungary, organised by the Foundation for a Civic Hungary on Sunday.
At the event, Orbán said the government would launch a National Consultation survey on the opposition Tisza Party’s leaked tax plans (which the Tisza Party dismissed on multiple occasions). Orbán said the opposition had brought “secrecy and stealth” to the political season and warned that those “who walk in twilight and darkness have bad intentions”.
“We have always done what we said and said what we have done,” Orbán said, highlighting the government’s steps to “send home” the IMF, create one million jobs, keep Hungary free of migrants, stay out of the war, protect children, support families, cut taxes and reintroduce the annual pensioners’ bonus.
He said the trust earned in this way was the reason the governing alliance had won serial elections. “What we promised, we delivered, that is what makes up the essence of politics, which is confidence,” Orbán said. Concerning his opponents, he said “Gyurcsány and his people were more clever, they only revealed after the election that they had deceived voters, while Tisza made it public before an election.” “They are offering their own head on a silver tray … why not accept it,” he added.
Orbán said that political parties that had lost the trust of voters “have nothing left but provocation” and noted opposition Tisza’s rally held earlier in the day at Kotcse, where ruling Fidesz has held its annual meetings for years. “They come here, because nobody believes what they say any more, but if they come here, there will be tension, a conflict … that is what they have left; we need to be prepared that this will be their policy for the next seven months,” he added.
“The United States is now dismantling the global economy in which we have lived so far, and regional economies are emerging worldwide,” Orbán said. He said the new strategy of the US, brought about by Donald Trump’s presidency, meant that the export of democracy was “finished”. “They don’t seek to lecture anybody, they don’t want to dictate what political system is right; every country has its own culture, they should have the systems they want,” he added.
“America is returning to a policy of great powers; their behaviour is no longer governed by international regulations, they see the world as one with players, powers, influences and an ability to project power, a power to be used,” Orbán said. He said the US was “facing the facts” such as China’s “irreversible advantages” in terms of its demography, technologies and amassed capital, and its decreasing military disadvantage. The US has also faced the fact that “Russia has won the war” and its victory could not be reversed without deploying hundreds of thousands of land troops.
The US has also realised that “it is possible to make business deals with Russia, but the Russians will not be isolated from China in the next decades … the US is losing ground in the Pacific, and the EU is weak and will stay so,” Orbán added.
According to the prime minister, the European economy is not likely to “get up”, while “Germany’s new chancellor has recently declared the end of the dream of a welfare state.” In Poland, “liberal oppression is nearing its end, and in Czechia “Babis ante portas,” Orbán said, adding that “the Russian president will remain in place.”
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