Orbán: “order and security represent Hungary’s hardest currency”

Hungarians need their country “because it is the homeland that protects us from all troubles and dangers” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Satuday at an officers’ graduation ceremony at the National University Of Public Service.

“We must be strong, well-prepared and united because it is the only way to prevent us from the dangers our community faces and protect Hungarians’ peace and safety,” Orbán said. There are many dangers, with hundreds of thousands of migrants storming Hungary’s borders, western European cities being attacked by terrorists, a deadly virus threatening people in the past two years and most recently, a war starting in a neighbouring country, he said.

The most important task of the state is to protect public order, Orbán said. Any government that is unable to guarantee the safety of life and property will lose the right to expect cooperation from citizens, he added. Orbán said that in the past, paramilitary organisations were “marching” in the streets and an organised series of murders were committed against Hungarian citizens, but times have since changed.