Orbán: The Hungarian opposition is in the pocket of the Americans
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, addressing lawmakers on Monday, said that Hungary’s strategy for beating the coronavirus pandemic would depend on its vaccination campaign.
Orbán said vaccinations were the only effective way to tackle the virus, adding that after Hungary’s experiences gained after three waves of the epidemic it had become clear that restrictions and masks were not up to the job of defeating or even slowing down the virus.
But if there are enough people who have been vaccinated, a normal life can be maintained, Orbán said.
Concerning booster jabs, he said that “having [the possibility] is better than not”, adding that people who receive a third jab would be “certainly better protected”.
So far some 525,000 people have received a booster shot, he said, adding 17 million doses are available this year.
Orbán noted that the majority of Hungarians were vaccinated and protected from the virus and appealed to people who have not got vaccinated to do so.
The prime minister said Hungary was prepared to respond to the second wave of the virus, adding that his government has asked parliament to prolong the special legal order and the special measures related to Covid until the end of the year.
“The vaccine works and Hungary works,” Orbán said. He said the economy “has got off to a flying start”, noting that GDP growth was 17.9 percent in the second quarter, the “highest figure ever recorded”. Hungary’s economic output has now surpassed pre-pandemic levels, while most European Union countries are “still waiting” to catch up, he said.
Orbán said full-year GDP growth would reach, or could even exceed, the government’s target of 5.5 percent.
Referring to questions the government put to the public in a recent survey, Orban told lawmakers that responses to the National Consultation survey “are binding on the government”.
By Feb. 15, the government will refund a portion of personal income tax to parents raising children, he said. Fully 1.9 million parents will receive partial refunds of their 2021 personal income tax payments, a measure that totals 600 billion forints (EUR 1.7bn), Orbán said. Also, pensioners will receive a pension premium that is likely to be over 50,000 forints to make up for higher inflation, he said.
Talks are under way to increase the minimum wage to 200,000 forints,
the prime minister said, adding that the chance of a successful agreement was high.
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Also, people below the age of 25 will be exempted from paying the personal income tax, while in early 2022 military and law enforcement personnel will get a special allowance for six months, Orbán said, adding that, in accordance with the results of the National Consultation, the government also intends to provide constitutional protection for family benefits, low taxes on labour and pensions.
Turning to the recent developments in Afghanistan, Orbán said
Hungary had joined the international military operation there at the request of the United States and had withdrawn its troops in parallel.
He said it appeared that the US had “misjudged the situation in Afghanistan”.
The prime minister praised the efforts of the Hungarian troops, saying that he did not believe the threat related to Afghanistan had passed, as the crisis in the Central Asian country could trigger a new migration wave. Orbán said Hungary was sticking to its policy of strengthening its borders.
He said the Balkan migration route was again filling up with migrants who, he insisted, were being aided by organisations linked to US financier George Soros. Orbán said the number of migrants crossing the border illegally and people smugglers registered by the Hungarian authorities had tripled compared with last year.
Commenting the EC infringement procedure launched against Hungary because of the government’s child protection law, Orbán said:
“We won’t allow space for any kind of sexual propaganda targeting our children.”
Orbán noted that the Hungarian people would have the final say on the issue in a referendum.
“In Hungary it is up to the people to pass decisions on migration and child protection. In turn, Brussels and countries that favour migration and LMBTQ have never done the same: there, the elite rather than the people pass decisions on these issues,” Orbán said.
Orbán warned everyone against committing themselves to one side in the Sino-US struggle. Nor does he consider it fortunate that
“the opposition is apparently in the pockets of the Americans”.
He does not think it is a good political idea to pick the pockets of the Americans, even though they are our allies.
After Orbán’s address, opposition leaders responded, with Tímea Szabó of Párbeszéd referring to “record inflation” and “record petrol prices”.
Péter Jakab, the leader of Jobbik, said
more than 2 million Hungarians lived below the poverty line, while the minimum pension and child allowance had not increased in the last 13 years.
Bertalan Tóth of the Socialist Party said Orbán had made no mention of the 30,000-plus people who died of Covid-19, while the number of people vaccinated in Hungary was “well below” the EU average. He referred to “growing waiting lists” in hospitals and thousands of doctors and nurses quitting state health care in the middle of the pandemic.
LMP’s László Lóránt Keresztes said
the prime minister had failed to mention “the transfer of an astonishing amount of public property to [ruling] Fidesz public foundations”, and austerity at local government level.
Ferenc Gyurcsány of the Democratic Coalition said
the prime minister was “fighting demons from Brussels”, “a lawmaker called Gyurcsány” as well as “hundreds of thousands of those who want to love freely”.
He said the prime minister had failed to unite the nation and he accused Orbán of having a “party secretary mentality” since he only represented his own party.
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Source: MTI
“Orbán: The Hungarian opposition is in the pocket of the Americans”
It may be faulty translation but I find it hard to believe that. I would like to see what Orbán said in Hungarian and translate it for myself. The reason I doubt that Orbán would have said “Americans” because Orbán is no fool and knows that the Hungarian opposition is in the pocket of the current far-left, illegitimate, ruling American politicians, not the Americans.
And you are in the pocket of China, so?
Psaki, Biden’s press secretary said, allies do not need to agree on everything. Biden and company condemned election interference. If it is wrong to interfere in U election, it is equally wrong to interfere in Hungary’s election.
Do not let globalists Soros and his buddies determine Hungary’s sovereignty.
Only traitors to the country would accept money from foreign sources. Foreign governments, especially the US, would definitely want something in return.
The left leaning administration of Joe Biden in cohoots with the Soros organisations, are busily pushing the LGBTQ ideology across Western Europe.Central Europe should restrict foreign ownership of its media as most foreign media will push the Soros line. Brussels unfortunately is very much under the influence of the LGBTQ lobby. I can see the day when Central Europe will form its own traditionalist political and economic block which would be a good thing for Europe.
Central Europe is wise in keeping the leftist ideologies of the decadent west and the Soros organisations out.
There is a cure for ignorance, but there is no cure for stupidity.
Try to read my post and learn something. Hungary is a small country and needs to get along with all the big powers but there is no excuse for the Biden crime family getting bought and paid for by communist China.
Whichever way you look at it the scale of foreign interference on behalf of the Opposition coalition is staggering!
You have both Obama and Biden personally attacking Orban.
You have the Dutch and Swedish Prime Ministers insulting Orban and the Hungarian people.
You have the whole EU establishment on persistence attack on Orban.
You have the new German media broadcasting in Hungarian with constant attacks on Hungary.
Whether you agree with Orban or not is your own personal choice. But please remember that if you do replace Orban with the Opposition, all the above mentioned countries and organisations will be in control of your country.
Do you really want that?
What the opposition is doing is treason.
Or we keep Orban and have China or Russia control us; already happening wouldn’t you say! Certainly with China anyway!
Let us review history, the US has never helped Hungary. After the 1st and 2nd World Wars, the US and allies were happy to chop up the country and allow the Soviet Union to control Central Europe. Finally, when Hungary managed to throw off foreign dictatorship, along comes the EU and the US trying to manipulate and dictate to the country. It was the US and the EU that wanted to allow hordes of Muslims in and to create the same chaos that reigns in Germany, France, Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, etc.. The latest disaster the US caused was in Afghanistan. President Trump’s withdrawal plan was ignored. The Biden Administration started to withdraw the Armed Forces, left behind the American Citizens, Arsenal, Pallets of Cash, Translators that helped the Americans, there-by putting their allies lives at risk. The latest prank the US pulled was to withdraw a promised submarine contract from France. Can anyone afford to rely on the US when they have a democrat controlled government, the answer is NO.
The American People are resourceful, hardworking and welcoming. Having travelled extensively in that beautiful country and got to know the people, it is obvious, that the great American People deserve better.
It is important that Hungary remains friendly with both Russia and China. Hungary depends greatly on Russian oil and gas and natural resources. The friendship with China is also important. It stops further dictatorship and interference in sovereignty by the leftist controlled Brussels. . Hungary, being a small country, needs friends that can carry a big stick.
Donald J Trump
Aug 22
·Joe Biden gave our enemies all around the World a great and lasting victory when he unexpectedly and inexplicably removed our great soldiers from Afghanistan before taking out our U.S. citizens and allies, along with abandoning many billions of dollars of highest-grade Military equipment. Leaving our Military till the end was such a simple decision that anyone with intelligence and common sense would have made, but he called it wrong and instantly created perhaps the greatest embarrassment for our Country in its history—and it is far from over!
As an American it is insanity at a level I have never seen before and it’s both domestic and foreign. Biden was put into office by some of the most powerful people and organizations in the world. It started the first day in office.
This all happened with help of 95 % of the media and big tech. Like the fake Russia story they insist Trump responsible for what they called a insurrection that we now know that FBI undercover involved – it gets uglier at every turn. Facebook – Twitter does not allow decent on the election fraud, COVID, Hunter Biden hardrive from over a year ago and trump Himself and is more popular than Biden. The spent millions on the election- zuckerburg and wife 400 million- setting up polling stations and staff along with drop boxes.