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In an almost one-hour-long speech delivered on the main stage of the event Tusványos 34 – You can count on us, in Tusnádfürdő, the Prime Minister said with this election result he would not be satisfied as in 2022 they won in 87 constituencies.
Why should we be content with fewer in 2026? We won’t lower the bar, he said in the speech which was broadcast by the public service media.
The Prime Minister indicated that he intended his speech as an end-of-term speech, but was preparing for delivering a term-opening speech in a year’s time in the same place. He stressed the importance of the outcome of the elections for Hungarians living beyond the borders, saying that they can always choose between two fates. He said the credo of the Hungarian opposition controlled from Brussels was already stated when they referred to Nagyvárad [Oradea] as Romanian soil. “We stand for the opposite of this, we say that a state has borders, a nation doesn’t, and so you can always count on the national government. We stand up for the Hungarians, we will fight for you, too, and so I ask you, too, to stand up for your own future,” he stated.
He stressed that democracy meant that “the outcome of every election is open; that’s what’s beautiful about it, and dangerous, too,” “those who want a guarantee of victory are in the wrong place” because the people will decide.
There is a chance of cooperation if Romania is able to overcome the difficult situation it is in, he pointed out, speaking about his meeting with his Romanian counterpart Ilie Bolojan the other day.
He mentioned that Mr Bolojan was his 24th Romanian prime minister colleague, stating in continuation that the stability of the Romanian political system is guaranteed not by prime ministers, but by the stability of heads of state. Mr Orbán highlighted that the Romanian prime minister was “a heavyweight politician,” a man from Nagyvárad, and so “he moves within the same code system and cultural fabric as we do.” At the same time, he is a Romanian patriot who will fight for the national interests, and in the meantime, he also “wishes for joint Romanian-Hungarian success,” has a vested interest in joint achievements, and will do everything he can for them.
Regarding the banning from Hungary of the anti-Semitic band Kneecap “glorifying terrorism,” Mr Orbán said it is important that Hungary is an island of freedom and peace in an upside down world where no one can be hurt or harmed due to their ethnicity or religion, not even verbally. He observed that the organisers of the Island Festival “should have had the good sense” not to invite the band and not to put Hungary into such a position.
He also said there is a phenomenon in show business in Hungary: one show business figure calls people he does not like mere amoebae, another shoots the prime minister in the head on stage, while a third one invites an anti-Semitic band which supports terrorism. Something has evidently gone amiss in Hungarian show business before the elections, he pointed out.
He added that he understood that everyone lived off money, but money could not be this important.
The Prime Minister announced the establishment of digital civic circles because “there is a need for a digital civic force,” and said that they have already established digital civic circle number one, its website will be launched after his speech, and all relevant information will be available there.
He highlighted that the establishment of digital civic circles also had relevance to the elections, but pointed beyond them. “We – the right-wing, civic, Christian, conservative community in Hungary – ourselves must do something about the virtual space. Today, this is a hostile territory, and this is not OK,” he pointed out.
Mr Orbán said in the past fifteen years, something has changed in the world. We replaced cafes with web cameras, meetings with friends with forums, moved conversations to chat windows, and if something does not originate from the Internet, it comes to nothing. This change has swept through the whole western world, there is nothing specifically Hungarian about it. At the same time, vulgarity, insults, trolling and digital violence are part of a Hungarian phenomenon.
Those who “are willing to stand up for their civic, non-left-wing, non-progressive, non-liberal conviction” are attacked, ridiculed, humiliated. We must do something about this, and must counter, must create the opposite of the culture of destruction in digital space, he said.
He added that earlier, they had already established the Fight Club against Tisza’s digital aggression, and this was important, but fighting was not for everyone. “There are some who are positively fed up with conflicts. Therefore, we need a place, a space also for those who don’t want to take part in direct political battles, but want to take part in building the country. We need a space, we need support, we need political and communal protection, we need many digital civic circles,” Mr Orbán stated.
He said that digital civic circles are also relevant to national sovereignty as the globalists, the Left, the pro-war forces are already there, running riot in the digital space. “We, too, need a digital conquest,” we must create an immune system, “we must create our moral source code and our national algorithm,” he said.
Mr Orbán also spoke about the fact that in Hungary there was a debate about what the Hungarians had gained through Donald Trump’s victory. He highlighted that with Donald Trump’s victory, we had managed to avoid a world war for the time being, political discrimination against Hungary had been brought to a conclusion, the economic sanctions against the Paks nuclear plant had been lifted, and so the project could now be completed, and US investments had started in Hungary, he listed. He added that so far four major investments had been implemented in the area of research and development, and another three were expected in September.
At the same time, the Prime Minister took the view that the chance of a world war was continually increasing, and Hungary must prepare for staying out of the conflict. He said the outbreak of earlier world wars was preceded by omens such as the intensification of rivalry among great powers, an increase in the number of armed conflicts and the escalation of the arms race. Hungary needs patience, composure and strategic calm, he stressed. He said Ukraine must not be admitted to the European Union – with which the war, too, would be admitted – even if the whole of Brussels goes berserk.
The limits of Hungary’s diplomatic and power influence are evident, Therefore, we must primarily focus on regional peace. We must conclude peace alliances with whomever we can, he stressed.
The Prime Minister laid down that we must prepare for staying out of the war. For this, we need to maintain good relations with every power centre of the world. What we need is for every great power to have a vested economic and financial interest in Hungary’s success, meaning that no one should have a vested interest in destroying or weakening Hungary.
A condition of staying out of the war is that we must have strength to defend ourselves, Mr Orbán pointed out, adding that “we have plenty to do in this department yet, though military expenditures have now reached 1,750 billion forints.”
We must develop the country’s resilience, its self-sufficiency in the defence industry, in energy, in food supply and in the area of digital skills. In the field of the latter, the emergence of artificial intelligence is changing everything, he said, adding that we must carry out the work related to the development of artificial intelligence within national competence because the European Union is worthless in this race, he pointed out.
Mr Orbán described the attainment of a human resources advantage as an important goal. He said today in Europe, Hungary spends the most, in relation to its gross domestic product, on education, but surely on higher education. Hungary is in the European vanguard in vocational training. Three Hungarian universities are in the world’s top two per cent, while nine Hungarian universities are in the world’s top five per cent.
He urged a full national consensus on the need that Hungary cannot lock itself into any particular bloc. “We are a part of the western alliance system, but we must also be present in the eastern economy,” he added.
Hungarian foreign policy and the Hungarian nation strategy must strive for a state of balance if we want to live through the coming decades as a nation, a Hungarian nation, he stated.
In summary, he said the threatening shadows of a world war are on the horizon, while a European war is already reality. “A European war will not happen, it’s already happening,” he stated, describing the Russo-Ukrainian war as a European war.
In his view, Western politics describes the Russo-Ukrainian conflict as a conflict emerging on the axis of democracy and authoritarian regimes, but in actual fact, the belonging of Ukraine to the West means the upsetting of the balance of power between the West and Russia. He added that by virtue of the fact that the West had wanted to attract Ukraine to itself or had accepted Ukraine’s aspiration to that effect, the West had started a war spiral.
He observed that only amateurs thought that it was natural on the part of NATO or the EU to support Ukraine’s western integration because every such move upset the balance of power, and as this was an existential matter for the counter-interested party, it had provoked an immediate reaction.
In his opinion, the conclusion that the West can draw from this is that even good intentions can provoke a war if they emerge in the wrong place and in the wrong way.
He recalled that it had been former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s genius that he had brought up the cause of German reunification in the right place, at the right time and in the right way. By contrast, attracting Ukraine to the West was promoted at the wrong time and with the wrong method, leading to a war eventually.
He said the EU decided to go to war, and even if the United State quits, they will still continue to support Ukraine. By contrast, he said in continuation, Hungary decided not to go to war.
“The European Union decided that in order for Hungary, too, to go to war, Hungary should have a pro-Ukraine and pro-Brussels government. This is the basic formula of domestic politics in Hungary. We, on the other hand, decided not to allow either Tisza or DK [Democratic Coalition] to enter government because we want Hungary to have a pro-peace, national government,” he stated.
Mr Orbán described the draft of the next seven-year EU budget as a war budget, claiming that according to the data of the draft, 20 per cent of the money would go to Ukraine, and the rest would be spent on war preparations, rather than on development or agriculture.
In his view, this is the budget of a European Union which wants to defeat Russia in the territory of Ukraine in the hope that the war defeat would shake the Russian system of government, this would pave the way for a change of government and liberal politics, and “the good old Yeltsin times will return and business can start in earnest.”
He said Hungary has no interest in a war budget, but urges a budget that supports peace and development. Therefore, he does not accept the presented draft even as a basis for further negotiations.
Mr Orbán also said the government has already brought home half of the EU funds Hungary is entitled to, EUR 12 billion, and they will also bring the other half home because until Hungary receives the funds it has not yet received, there will be no new seven-year EU budget, the adoption of which requires unanimity. “We’ll bring it home, and we’ll make no concessions of any kind regarding our national sovereignty either,” he laid down.
He warned that the “tandem” of Tisza and DK, too, would bring the EU funds home because they already had an agreement with Brussels that in return, they would support the war in Ukraine, would consent to Ukraine’s EU membership, would implement the migration pact, would withdraw the child protection legislation, would withdraw the taxes levied on multinational companies, and would cancel the reduction of household energy bills. “Meaning that there will be money in return for our sovereignty. This is their option. I suggest that we bring the money home instead,” he observed.
He urged a change of leadership in the EU because in his opinion, the incumbent EU leadership has guided the EU onto a forced course, and this forced course will lead to a trade war which we cannot win. He said in summary that Brussels is preparing for a trade or cold war with the United States and China, and is engaged in a hot war with Russia, and meanwhile, it seeks to extend and intensify its participation in the war in Ukraine.
He added that he was convinced that this was contrary to the best interests of the Member States, and that the majority of European people did not support this policy. As to what sense this makes and why they are doing what they are doing, he observed: “the Rogán Works haven’t yet succeeded in obtaining the relevant document.” As a result, there are only intellectual possibilities to answer the question.
In his view, the first idea to be considered is that there is a federalist master plan, meaning that the European Commission in Brussels looks upon every crisis as yet another opportunity for building a United States of Europe. The second possibility is that the EU’s fiscal management today is such that it can only be maintained with military administration and war loans because the EU has lost its competitiveness, while another possibility is that Ukraine’s EU membership can guarantee the protection of the interests of certain economic actors there through the creation of an EU Member State which can be manually controlled, he added.
He recalled that in the past ten years, the EU had let Britain go, while now they wanted to admit Ukraine, which was “absolutely crazy from an economic point of view,” but “there is a system in this” because Britain is sovereigntist and would never consent to a federal United States of Europe, while Ukraine would.
Mr Orbán said the essence of the overarching Hungarian strategy rests on the fact that in 1920, Hungary’s defeat was sanctified, the enemies of the country decided that Hungary will be small and poor.
“We’re in politics, and the essence of our nation strategy is to change that fate. Meaning that Hungary will be great and rich. This is the core of the Hungarian nation strategy,” he stated.
He said the overarching Hungarian strategy must answer the question, among others, of where we will have enough people, raw materials, energy, capital and knowledge from, and how Hungary will be capable of self-defence and able to ensure that it will not be left out of important international decisions.
In continuation, he said “we’re not preparing for the importation of people,” we need a pro-family nation.
He added that in the whole of Europe, tax benefits and housing support included, Hungary was spending the most on family support. Now, they are also offering an opportunity to young people: with the housing credit facility, they can now be a part of the nation not only culturally, but also as home owners, thereby strengthening families, young people and the nation, he pointed out.
The Prime Minister also spoke about the fact that the future lay with Central Europe.
He said societies West of Hungary have irrevocably become mixed societies, with increasing Muslim population ratios, while large cities will, within the foreseeable future, become Muslim-majority, meaning that a population exchange will have been accomplished.
He added that Europe would continue to remain a migration destination, and when Africa, too, started in earnest, then the West – with such a high percentage of migrant population within its body – would not be able to defend itself.
In ten years’ time, one of the most important tasks of the would-be prime minister will be to also protect the country’s western borders from migration, he pointed out.
The Prime Minister took the view that in the instincts of western people, Christianity and national existence had not connected together. For 1,300 years, since the Battle of Poitiers in 732, westerners have not had the experience that in the event of the loss of Christianity, existence as a nation, too, could be lost, he explained.
By contrast, the Hungarian Constitution recognises the role of Christianity in the preservation of the nation, he pointed out.
He spoke about the relationship between Christianity and politics which, in his view, has three stations: at one point, the majority of European nations had living faith, this was faith-based Christianity. Later, the culture that grew out of the Christian faith remained a coordinate system for nations, this was cultural Christianity, this is where Central Europe is today.
He added that the third station was zero Christianity when Christianity served as a code system not even in the form of culture and was being pushed out of the lives of countries.
Mr Orbán said this has a tipping point which comes when same-sex marriage is elevated to law as this decision denies the basic tenets of Christian co-existence. This is the stage where western societies are today, it is in this state that they were overwhelmed by mass migration, and this state made them unfit for defence, he added.
Whether we can gain a foothold where we are only depends on us and young people. Did we teach them that if they are Hungarians, they have a task and the task is to preserve what we have, to obtain what we do not yet have and need, and to say no to what we do not need, he asked in summary.
After his speech, answering questions, the Prime Minister said today Hungary is still a sovereign country, but for this we must fight every day.
He stressed that a sovereign Hungary meant that we lived as we wanted to, the Hungarian way, and not the way someone else would tell us to. In other words, without migrants, gender and war.
In answer to the question of what he would do as President of the European Commission, Mr Orbán mentioned the restoration of the balance between Member State and EU powers through giving back the powers taken away, and the commencement of “the building of a Europe of concentric circles” “as part of a terribly complex diplomatic manoeuvre.” He said the goal is for every nation to be able to decide which part of the European structure they wish to join.
“This will not survive, this will disintegrate, decline, fall apart, it is falling apart at the seams, we’re not admitting those whom we should, such as the Serbs and the other Balkans countries, while we’re admitting those whom we shouldn’t, such as the Ukrainians. We let the British go whom we shouldn’t have, and so we should somehow connect them back,” he said.
According to the Prime Minister, the problem with the present arrangement is that “we’re unable to create a European arrangement in which every nation feels equally comfortable and happy.”
Among the possible circles, he mentioned security, free movement, “a common wallet,” meaning the Eurozone, and the circles of constitutional institutions.
Mr Orbán highlighted that Ukraine and Turkey could become members of a security cooperation arrangement concerning energy security, stressing that Hungary does not want a United States of Europe.
The building of a Europe resting on concentric circles is the only chance to save the European Union. Otherwise it will fall apart, disintegrate, will connect to external points of reference as Britain did, the Prime Minister stated, observing that this will manifest itself not in a spectacular collapse, but in the non-implementation of decisions. This is how it is: ever more decisions, ever less implementation, and the whole thing will become paralysed, he said.
Among the government’s family policy tasks, the Prime Minister mentioned the preservation of a home for young people who return home “after a few years’ of wandering.”
“This is what we work for, that there should be Hungarians in Transylvania, there should be somewhere for the Hungarians of Transylvania to return to, so that there should be Hungarians in Budapest, so that we avoid a bigger problem,” he said, stressing that young people do not like to be given things, they like to be given real chances to show what they are made of.
He said, from the viewpoint of nation building, it is a breakthrough that young people aged 18 and over can decide to buy homes of their own, and stressed that a pro-family Hungary was indeed a career path which started with the student or worker loan, housing support, exemption from the payment of personal income tax for the under 25s as well as for women with children until the age of 30, continued with the various forms of family support, housing support, the family housing and tax benefits, “and this will stay with you all the way to the end of your life.”
In answer to a question, Mr Orbán said that in his view, if not next year, but during his lifetime, the Hungarian football team will play a World Cup final.
When asked about his role model, Mr Orbán said, “I’m still at the beginning, I haven’t chosen one yet.”
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