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Orbán: As long as we lead the country, Hungary won’t get into war
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As long as Hungary has a national government, it will not get involved in either side of the Russia-Ukraine war, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the launch of the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrat alliance’s European Parliament election campaign on Friday.
If Fidesz and the Christian Democrats were not the ones in power, Hungary would be “up to its neck in the war”, the prime minister said.
He said “pro-war governments, Brussels bureaucrats” and the network of US financier George Soros were “sending millions of dollars” to the Hungarian “pro-war left” in Budapest. Orbán said the left wanted “a puppet pro-war government controlled by Brussels and Washington” instead of a pro-peace government.
The prime minister called for protecting the peace and safety of the Hungarian people as well as the country’s economic achievements. “We have to protect our families and especially our children,” he said.
“Just so those in Brussels also understand: No migration, no gender, no war!” Orbán said, quoting his party’s election manifesto.
“We’ve won every European election for the last 20 years,” Orbán said. “We’re the most successful political community in Hungary and Europe, so we can’t set a lesser goal. I recommend we win this one too.”
Orbán said the reason their political opponents had been unable to win people’s trust for the last decade-and-a-half was that they had squandered their integrity and “forgot about humility”. He said an election victory was just a means to serving the people, which was what the ruling parties had been doing for 14 years.
He said it was difficult to continually earn people’s trust, so in order to win, they had to be honest about “who we are”. “We’re the ones who got the Hungarian economy back on its feet after . the left bankrupted it.” Orbán said there were a million more people, including twice as many Roma people working today than under the previous Socialist governments. “We’re the ones who gave the Roma jobs . We’re counting on them again in this election,” he said.
Under the ruling parties, the minimum wage has increased 3.5-fold compared with what it was under the left-wing governments, Orbán said. Meanwhile, the average wage has tripled, the average pension has increased and the 13th-month pension has been restored, he added.
“We are the ones who reduced the number of Hungarians in deep poverty and we are the ones who will eliminate the poverty left behind by the left,” he said.
Orbán said “no lies from the left or political troublemaking can overwrite reality”. He said the size of the Hungarian economy in 2010 was about half of what it is today, so the size of the Hungarian economy had almost doubled over the last 14 years. Whereas in 2010 there were 3 million cars registered to Hungarians, today there are more than 4.2 million, and total household savings have increased to 5,500 billion forints (EUR 14.0bn) from 1,000 billion, the prime minister said.
“The truth is that Hungarians are better off today than they were under [former Socialist prime minister Ferenc] Gyurcsány, although still not as well off as we would like,” Orbán said, adding that the people were aware of this, which was why they continued to support Fidesz and the Christian Democrats in every election.
“Let’s not pretend to be modest: Hungary’s economic outlook is encouraging,” he said. “Our track record makes us the clear favourites for this election, too.”
Meanwhile, Orbán said the incumbent Brussels leadership needed to go and did not deserve another chance. Hungary’s achievements, he said, were “under threat from the direction of Europe and Brussels”.
“The strong, peaceful, free and happy Europe we love so much and longed for under communism is in decline . before our very eyes,” Orbán said.
The prime minister said the leadership in Brussels had failed, Europe’s economy was in decline and the green transition was “a disaster”. He said Ukrainian grain was driving European farmers to ruin, migrants were flooding the continent, the crime rate was up and there was an increasing amount of violence. “They want to re-educate children and turn them over to gender activists,” he added.
Ok NATO Is, Or it should be a defense alliance, but by reading the way Orban says, i really wonder if he would go to war in case Russia attacks a NATO country. I really think that this guy wants the benefits of joining alliances but he does not want to comply with obligations, just like UK when they left the EU. Just take a look to his blackmail to Sweden…..
Remember OV met with Putin in early ’22 and returned at told his loyal folk that Puti had told him he had no intention of invading Ukraine. Whew, I certainly feel better now knowing what OV knows.
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Fidesz has little to crow about or promote on substance or achievements, but only have dog whistling or barking at the opposition, EU/west, Brussels etc. and parts of Hungarian society, by looking to the past and conserving power.
This is opposed to developing a future for all Hungarian youth and working age that does not require emigration…… while reliant upon consolidated media, small circle of elites/followers, compromised institutions, budget largesse, ageing, regional and low info voters…..