Soros political player for decades, tells Fidesz state secretary to BBC
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Hungarian state secretary for international communications and relations Zoltán Kovács has told the BBC in an interview that financier George Soros became a political player two decades ago.
Kovács said in the HardTalk interview broadcast on Monday that this was clear from Soros’s own statements as well from the activities of the Open Society Foundation and Project Syndicate, which he said were the main conduits of the billionaire’s ideas about Europe.
Soros’s institutional network wields great power without ever having had an electoral mandate, he added.
NGOs linked to Soros have nothing to do with civil society, he said, adding that civil society is something that is built from the ground up. There are currently 65,000 such organisations in Hungary, he added.
Asked about an allegation by the head of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee NGO concerning harassment by the government, Kovács said the dispute was with a few dozen organisations and had nothing to do with civil groups run by ordinary people.
He said that ever since the migration crisis, the gap between the “western European left-liberal political elite” and voters in European Union member states had grown.
Soros is a person with full of hate against his former homeland! Soros is a criminal that was lucky to fly from Hungary because of all the thefts he has carried out in 1944/1945 from the poor Jews. He knew that they never would return. Soros is a demon because he has put many people in deep poverty and what is he doing now? Smiling and he is a highly welcomed guest in the EU. How deep can a people sinck? The sooner the man closed his eyes for ever the better!
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