PM Orbán: we have a plan but we need 10 more years in power

“To be Hungarian is a task and a mission, probably the most beautiful mission in the world,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the Tranzit festival in Tihany, at lake Balaton, on Friday.

Great national parties needed

Orbán highlighted Hungarian culture and the Hungarian language “not understood by anyone else but those born Hungarian, and which cannot be preserved by others”. He warned that Hungarian culture, a history of “1,100 years of statehood” and the “opportunity for our children to be Hungarian for thousands of years” would only survive “if we cultivate them”. “If more and more young people grow up to think that being Hungarian is good, fantastic, exceptional, and it involves obligations that must be met, if they think it is good to serve the homeland, there will be many of us,” the prime minister said.

Orbán regretted that internationally liberal democrats were “far ahead of conservative democrats in attractively presenting political subjects in the media”. He suggested that it should be reversed but added that “the other side is overpowering, with a stable conservative majority only in Hungary.” Ruling Fidesz’s “two-thirds majority continues to stand firmly and its end is nowhere in sight,” the prime minister said. The anchor at the Tranzit festival introduced Orbán by quoting him as saying in 2012 that Fidesz’s “two-thirds rule stands stock-still”.

“It has been standing ever since … and the really important thing is that from here we cannot see its end,” he said. Orbán pointed to Hungary’s political life in the late 19th and 20th centuries, and said “the nature of Hungary’s politics is such that time after time great national parties are formed and they win elections over a longer period of time.” “Hungarians do not need to be ashamed [of that] because it is a European phenomenon,” he added. Here are some photos:

Concerning the difference between Fidesz and the opposition, Orbán compared professional football to amateur soccer, and said amateurs will “run where they see the ball, while professionals will run where the ball will be”. He said his ruling Fidesz party had a strategy “for the short, medium, and long term”, while the opposition parties were absorbed in “picking a case and creating a scandal”.

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Large, financial groups have other designs

He suggested, at the same time, that “apart from the [poor] state of the opposition we should also consider who is behind them”. Large, financial groups “have clear designs for the world and Hungary, looking for agents, and they find those agents within Hungary’s left.” “Comparing positions in the international arena they are Goliath and we are David,” he said. Referring to Fidesz’s winning four elections in the past, Orbán said “we want to continue in that habit”. He also said the opposition had had “multiple times” the funds to finance their campaign as Fidesz.

On another subject, Orbán said “young people should decide if they have a homeland or they just want to have a good time in the world, in the West, in Europe, in attractive forms of civilisation and their being Hungarian does not matter too much.” “Do we think that we have been born into a context, into a flow?” he asked. If so, he continued, they should ask if they have obligations or tasks arising from that identity. Once those questions are answered, one will “have both feet on the ground, and can start collecting similar people around them to build a large national army in a spiritual and political sense,” he said.

Hungarians’ duty was to “cultivate their land” in the Carpathian Basin

The prime minister said Hungarians’ duty was to “cultivate their land” in the Carpathian Basin. “If more and more young people grow up to think that being Hungarian is good, fantastic, exceptional, and it involves obligations that must be met, if they think it is good to serve the homeland, there will be many of us,” the prime minister said.  Asked to compare the communists of the past and the current Western mainstream, the prime minister said the worlds of liberals and communists were “very far apart at first glance”. But after the fall of a communist regime, most communists become liberals, even though this was believed to be impossible, he added.

Orbán said the dividing line was the ability to understand people and what makes one human. There are similarities when it comes to this question, he said, adding that liberals and leftists today firmly believed that “the one important thing in life is yourself”. “Your freedom, your well-being, your time, your way of life, this is what matters, and this view has a big political camp in the Western world,” Orbán explained.

But there is another view, the right-wing conservative one, which says the important thing is happiness, but “there are some things in the world that are more important than ourselves”, he said. These, he said, included the family, the homeland and God “and our relationship with him”. “If these things are more important than myself, then an answer must be found as to how one wants to serve these,” Orbán said. “This results in different kinds of politics”. This dividing line is not ideological, political or anthropological in nature, Orbán said.

Two schools

He identified two political schools on the conservative side. One of them, he said, organised thought about things more important than the individual along the lines of reasonable answers. The other, the Christian Democratic school, says there are sacred things “that life or enemies want to turn profane, and this must be prevented”. The prime minister said the answers to the questions of human existence and political questions converged both on the right and the left.

He noted that liberals in 1990 “quickly took over every institution” and worked out the linguistic framework “for describing what is happening in a way that is favourable to them”. That was when they came up with the idea that democracy has to be liberal, he said, adding that whereas other types of democracies had existed in the past, “this is now prohibited; there is only liberal democracy now”.