FM Szijjártó: Washington tried to topple the Orbán cabinet before
Washington’s “earlier attempt” to topple the Hungarian government “has failed” and “the current attempt by Brussels will also fail”, Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest on Friday. European People’s Party leader Manfred Weber “had better realise that Viktor Orban is the future for us Hungarians,” he declared.
Hungarian government protects the Hungarians, says Szijjártó
Szijjártó called 2025 a “watershed year”. So far the Hungarian government “has had to make strenuous effort to protect national identity, children, and the country’s security, but now it is time to launch a counter-attack,” a ministry statement quoted him as saying.
“We had to protect ourselves from the war in Ukraine” he said. “For over three years they have kept pushing us to enter this war. But for over three years we have managed to resist those attempts… We have not sent arms or Hungarians’ money to fund a lost war, and we’ve kept diplomatic channels open all along, because we know that giving those up would equal giving up hope,” he added.
“In recent years we have had to protect ourselves, our security and identity from illegal migration. It’s absurd that those posing as champions of democracy, whose favourite slogan is the rule of law, disregard international law,” Szijjártó said.
Under international law, he said, refugees have the right to stay in the first safe country, “not in the second, the fifth, or tenth country. Hungary, for migrants coming from the south, is definitely not the first category.”
Illegal migrants stopped at border
Hungary’s border fence “stops every illegal migrant” and “we will preserve Hungary as a migrant-free country in the future,” Szijjártó said. “It’s crazy that we have to pay a fine of a daily one million euros to Brussels for that.”
Meanwhile, the minister said: “We’ve had to protect our children from increasingly aggressive gender propaganda, and we’ve managed to ensure that gender organisations are not allowed to enter kindergartens or schools and not allowed to tell a girl that, even if you are a girl, you can consider yourself a little boy from tomorrow.”
The government has had to protect itself from continued attacks by “the liberal mainstream” in Brussels and in Washington, because “the former US administration considered Hungary its enemy”, Szijjarto said.
Washington wanted to topple the Hungarian government
“They openly wanted to topple the Hungarian government. No money, time or effort was saved. But they failed. But now Brussels is taking over from Washington. They have multiplied their attacks. They impose political, legal, and financial sanctions. They use all means to help a puppet government to power in Hungary,” he said. “A puppet government, that is ready to give up the country’s sovereignty, meet the demands of the liberal mainstream, ready to consent to Ukraine’s accession being forced through the EU, ready to send weapons to Ukraine, to dismantle the border fence and ready to allow the gender organisations back into schools,” the minister said.
“But just as Washington’s earlier attempt to topple the Hungarian government failed, the current attempt by Brussels will fail,” he said.
Ukraine will not be pushed into the EU
US President Donald Trump has “shut off the money sources financing the liberal mainstream’s global dictatorship of opinion … and we Hungarians will not tolerate foreign interference; we will not allow the will of Hungarians to be influenced by foreign funds,” Szijjarto said. “We will expel foreign financing from politics… This is called transparency,” he added.
“Hungary will not allow Ukraine to be pushed into the European Union above our heads; we will not allow Hungarians’ money to be transferred to Ukraine; we will not allow Hungarian farmers to be ruined, and we will not allow Hungary to be made a safe ground for the Ukrainian mafia,” Szijjarto said. “We will not allow Hungarian families to be made to pay twice or three times as much for utilities as now, because of Ukraine,” he said.
Szijjarto said that through the government’s Vote 2025 questionnaire “Hungarians can make a decision and save Hungary”. “And, dear friends, Vote 2025 will be followed by a Vote 2026 … and we will win again … and celebrate another huge patriotic victory,” he added.
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