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“They must be swept out,” we must put an end to this. “The whole Soros network must be eliminated,” Mr Orbán said, adding that this must be done now when “the US president swung into action.”
He stressed that all money originating from the United States must be disclosed to the public, and sanctions must be imposed on those who accept such funds.
“You cannot accept money from abroad in order to influence politics in Hungary,” the Prime Minister stated, adding that they will enforce this legally, and those involved will have to face legal consequences in the future.
He said a window of opportunity will now open when there are governments both in the United States and Hungary which see sovereignty as the ultimate value. They are doing now what we have been building here for 15 years, now is the moment when these international networks must be eliminated, must be swept out, their existence must be frustrated legally, he stated.
He said this will probably be “quite a job,” a major debate is expected, “there will be plenty of shrieking and screeching.” At the same time, “this job must be done, Hungary’s sovereignty must be protected,” he laid down.
Mr Orbán also said Hungarian non-governmental organisations received funds from as many as three sources – the Soros Foundations, the US government and Brussels – in order to force left-wing topics, thereby strengthening the opposition parties and toppling the government eventually.
He recalled that the US president had decided to publish records about how much money US government agencies had given to whom in recent years.
“What happened was that the liberal global elite used the US budget and the US government to finance its goals, financial and ideological goals in the whole world. Naturally, this was presented in the disguise of ‘aid’ but in actual fact, this is a means of political influence,” he said.
He highlighted that the beneficiary organisations had received money from the Soros Foundations on the one hand and from the federal budget of the United States. It was from this money that they performed their activities in the entire world, “destroying communities, supporting migration, rejecting the family and financing the gender madness.” In Hungary, the situation is even more complex in that “a third source of money fell in as well” because Brussels, too, sponsored these goals, he added.
He stressed, however, that in Hungary no one had given these organisations a mandate to do what they were doing.
They said about themselves that they are not involved in politics, but they only ever supported topics which were associated with left-wing parties. Meaning that they were given money to force these topics, thereby strengthening the opposition parties and to topple the government eventually, the Prime Minister stated in summary.
“In the Hungarian language, we over-used the word ‘agent’ in the communist times, but in actual fact, in the American usage of the word, these people are agents, meaning that rather than serving their own country, they accept money from a foreign power in order to stand for goals, ideals and programmes determined by that foreign power,” he said.
He mentioned the newspaper Politico as an example which equally received funds from Brussels, the Soros Foundations and the US federal budget. They continually criticised Hungary and the Hungarian prime minister, whilst registering the emerging candidates of the day of the Hungarian opposition “on all sorts of image-building lists.”
They build these characters in the category of ‘most talented, most promising politicians,’ increasing their popularity, trying to make them accepted and popular on both the international scene and in Hungary, he said, mentioning Péter Márki-Zay and Péter Magyar as examples.
He said the “Trump tornado” is now sweeping through as “a cleansing wind,” facts are being revealed, and conspiracy theorists are in trouble now, they must invent new theories “because the old ones have proved to be true.”
Mr Orbán mentioned the issue of migration as an example, regarding which everyone kept denying that there is a Soros Plan. Nonetheless, in the past nine years, nine million illegal migrants have arrived in Europe in accordance with the script of the plan, and all those who supported this received money.
“I’m not saying that it’s a conspiracy, but we’re talking about a dark-dark thing. Various financial sources – Brussels, the Soros Foundations, the US federal budget – channelled large amounts of money into the political lives of some countries specifically in order to serve political intentions,” he said.
He said it was from these funds that anti-government movements were organised in Serbia and Slovakia, and they want to do the same in Hungary as well.
Mr Orbán also spoke about the fact that the Hungarian government is preparing to conclude an agreement of “a respectable size” with the United States, about which he agreed with President Donald Trump already before his election.
This is partly necessary, he said, because in his view the Democrats ruined Hungarian-US economic relations, refused to renew certain agreements, imposed sanctions and made travel for Hungarian nationals more difficult. He added, however, that in addition to rectifying the past, we must also open up prospects and a future.
During the Democratic administration, Chinese investments in Hungary overtook US investments which was unprecedented compared with the years before, the Prime Minister pointed out, expressing hope that the economic agreement to be concluded will also remedy this ailment.
You cannot reasonably argue against the European Union’s migration pact, you must rebel against it, Mr Orbán stated in the radio interview.
The Prime Minister recalled that Hungary was “the first rebel” for which it was compelled to pay a daily fine of one million dollars. He observed at the same time that “we’re still better-off paying this fine than letting migrants in.”
He drew attention to the fact that Poland, too, had now started rebelling, announcing that it would not implement the migration pact. However, as the government in office there is liberal, they are not punished for the same thing that the Hungarians are.
He added that after the Italians, the Germans, too, announced their respective rebellion. However, despite the fact that the largest opposition party – which has a good chance of winning the German parliamentary elections due to be held in two weeks’ time – rejects the Brussels migration rules and 70 per cent of the German people agree with this, Parliament voted against it.
This is not just simply a migration problem, but also a democracy problem, he concluded, expressing hope at the same time that in the elections the Germans “will be able to set this right.”
The Prime Minister also said that the extension of the rural home refurbishment programme to pensioners creates an opportunity for six hundred thousand elderly people.
He said in Hungary there are 2,900 settlements with a population of less than five thousand with 420,000 pensioner households. Some of the elderly are widows or widowers, others are still married, meaning that “we can confidently say” that the extension of the home refurbishment programme creates an opportunity for as many as 600,000 people, he indicated. He added that if a pensioner living in such a settlement wants to upgrade their energy system, to enlarge their home or just to render their home more beautiful and comfortable, they may receive up to HUF 3 million, and they further have access to a loan of HUF 3 million. Meaning that the maximum available amount is HUF 6 million in total, he pointed out.
The Prime Minister highlighted that the right-wing government does not look upon pensioners as elderly people in need of help – though there is some truth in that, too – but more as “people that we owe our lives to, people who built the country, people who preserved the country, people who worked for us and because of us.”
He observed that there was a profound, Christian feeling in this, too. “In our heads” there is the thought that life is nothing other than an alliance among those who lived in the past, those who live in the present and those who are yet to be born, and in this the elderly play a key role. It is “appreciation that motivates right-wing governments” in the policy of supporting pensioners. Therefore, when there is an economic opportunity to provide something for pensioners that was not previously available to them, “this is a natural thought” for the government, Mr Orbán added.
He said the Hungarian government has so far won the battles fought for the 13th monthly pension every year, including this year.
He said it has been a recurring Brussels recommendation for years now that the 13th monthly pension must be abolished and the pension system must be reformed: all with a view to giving the money to someone else.
In general, there are always speculators, businesspeople, money people, banks and “folk of that kind” at the end of that chain. It is always about the fact that less money should be given to the people and more to banks and financial investors, Mr Orbán said, adding that this is the logic if we want to decipher the meaning of Brussels politics.
“We resist this,” he stated, pointing out that this year, too, they have won this battle because rather than paying the 13thmonthly pension in twelve equal instalments, they are paying it in one sum.
The Prime Minister spoke about the fact that the programmes launched this year were proving to be successful. There is positive feedback regarding the rural housing support, while so far almost ten thousand persons have applied for the worker loan. He added that as part of the Demján Sándor Programme, thousands of applications were being received in response to the various calls for proposals.
The Left relegates the village as a community and way of life to the past, saying that “living in a village is not trendy,” he said, stressing that by contrast, the government takes the view that the village is the most attractive way of life of the future where one can truly lead a quality life. Therefore, they are adopting measures which serve to reinforce this way of life.
