Politico trashed interview with Hungarian President due to her too conservative answers?
Katalin Novák, Hungary’s President, gave an interview to Australia’s only nationally distributed daily, The Australian. In the interview, she said that it was hard to be a conservative leader in Europe and that media and politicians spread fake news about Hungary. She added that once Politico did an interview with her, but because of her non-liberal, too conservative replies, they trashed it.
Népszava wrote that the President’s press office confirmed that Politico made the interview. “It is hard to accept this type of liberalism”, the Hungarian President shared about the issue. She highlighted she wanted to show the world what it was like to be a conservative female leader.
Novák said Hungary stood by freedom, family and Christian tradition. In the interview, appearing in the paper’s weekend edition, Novák rejected any suggestion that Hungary was anti-Semitic, pointing to the people from various political parties and other groups who came together in solidarity at the Dohány Street synagogue in Budapest to support Israel after it was attacked by Hamas.
Hungary has a “zero-tolerance” policy for anti-Semitism, she said. Addressing the Western media’s depiction of Hungary and Hungarians as anti-democratic, Novák put down such misunderstandings to the fact that most journalists don’t speak Hungarian, and that Hungary’s position doesn’t always fit the mainstream, liberal narrative.
President Novák: mother, a wife, a Hungarian and a Christian
Novák said in the interview that she was defined by being a mother, a wife, a Hungarian and a Christian, adding that she wanted to serve as an example of a conservative woman leader.
She stressed the importance of addressing the demographic crisis and said her task as a conservative head of state was to do everything possible to make it easier for families who wanted children to have them. That means allowing women to choose both motherhood and a career, she added. Novák acknowledged Australia for taking in Hungarian refugees decades earlier and giving them a “second home”.
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How exactly did Politico “trash” her interview???
Our Politicians do live in a bit of a bubble. Not used to critical questions or journalists actually engaging in … journalism, anymore.
Oh, gee, a mouthpiece of the globalist-socialist cabal trashed a very vaguely, moderately right-of-center political leader. Color me flabbergasted. Not. These hacks are so pathetic…
As a member of the “globalist-socialist cabal” I would point out that Novak is crudely disingenuous trying to say that if you are not Hungarian speaking you can’t understand what is going on in the country. That excuse for negative perceptions of Hungary won’t wash. We’ve all seen far too much already. Novak is just a female mouthpiece for Orban and Fidesz. Notice that Orban wouldn’t dare go next door to Kyiv to visit Zelensky so they sent her there instead. She travels to places where Orban knows he is only a half notch away from being persona non grata. Novak is no Margaret Thatcher.
Larry – concur.
Globally let it not be forgotten the practice in Hungary of Democracy has been “trashed” by Orban.
Government control of the Media, of the Judiciary, rule to order – that these (3) examples, are not accepted nor practiced in a DEMOCRACY.
Hungary can’t VEIL this FACT as it grows in Global knowledge the Orban plan and path – he sends Hungary.
‘Katalin Novák, Hungary’s President, gave an interview to Australia’s only nationally distributed daily, The Australian’
The Australian is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also employs previous ‘close advisor’ to former PM Tony Abbott who visits the US fossil fuel Koch linked Danubius Institute etc. & Koch linked Tufton St. think tanks in London or ‘Londongrad’; whiff of anti-EU and anti-NATO?