If we allow the ‘Tisza-Brussels-big capital’ coalition to enter into government, they will pocket Hungarian families, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on Saturday in Budapest. In his state of the nation address, Mr Orbán said in Hungary the oil business, the world of bankers and the Brussels elite are preparing to form a government. The Prime Minister also laid down that as long as there is a patriotic government in office, we will not send weapons, our money cannot be taken away and our youths cannot be taken to Ukraine.
In his twenty-seventh state of the nation address held in the Castle Garden Bazaar, Mr Orbán also spoke about the fact that 2026 will be a year of victory, a year of victory for families, for the Right, for Fidesz, and a year of victory for Hungary.
The Prime Minister spoke about the importance of a sovereign foreign policy which is a pre-condition of national independence. We must take good care of it like the apple of our eye, he stressed.
He highlighted that the previous president of the United States did not only support the Russo-Ukrainian war, but with the exception of Hungary, he “pushed” all European states into it. However, after Donald Trump’s entry into office last January, the United States quit the conflict, while Europe has found itself stuck in it.
Regarding what happened, he said it is a good lesson for those who continually want to adjust to a greater power and have no faith in a sovereign foreign policy. The danger is grave. Brussels keeps trying every day, and the Tisza Party has already announced that they will make Hungary join the common European foreign policy, he stressed.
Mr Orbán said in his speech the year before he pledged that with Donald Trump’s return the Hungarians would again be walking down the main street of history, while their opponents would “roam muddy side streets in suburbs.” And that is how it is, he added.
In his view, if things continue like this, this century will be a century of humiliation for Europe. Given that a new industrial revolution has started in the world, and the continent is unable to take part in it. For the first time since the invention of steam machines, Europe will be not a shaper, but a victim of the process of global economic transformation, he stated in continuation. He mentioned as the causes high energy prices and suffocating over-regulation which, in the Prime Minister’s opinion, is killing the economy.
At the same time, Mr Orbán said the Hungarians still have a chance. He pointed out: in 2025 he had talks and agreed with the US, Russian and Turkish presidents about continued access for Hungary to cheap oil and gas. “There will be oil and there will be gas. [The] Paks [nuclear power plant] is being built, we will have enough energy for economic growth and the data-based economy. Meanwhile, the others are paying four to five times more for energy than we do in Hungary,” he said, adding that “depending on what your government arranged for you.”
Mr Orbán said in his speech the year before he also predicted some “tough rock and roll in Hungarian domestic politics” as the new president of the United States rebelled against “the global business, media and political network of the liberals.” With this, the chances of the Hungarian government have improved, “we, too, can take long strides, we can squeeze foreign influence seeking to restrict our sovereignty, along with its local agents, out of Hungary,” he added.
In continuation, he said this was the plan, but they have only completed half of the job because the oppressive Brussels machinery is still working in Hungary, “we will clear that away after April.”
“Fake civil society organisations, bought journalists, judges, politicians, algorithms, bureaucrats, rolling euros in the millions. Here in Hungary this is what Brussels means today,” he said.
He also quoted the report of the United States Congress which, by the Prime Minister’s account, lays down the following: The European Commission has pressured platforms to censor content ahead of national elections in Slovakia, the Netherlands, France, Moldova, Romania, and Ireland, in addition to the EU elections in June 2024. The European Commission has also activated rapid response systems ahead of the 2024 French legislative election, the 2024 Moldovan presidential election, the 2024-2025 Romanian presidential election, and the 2025 German legislative election. He added that it was not Russia saying this, but the United States. “Let us appreciate the friendship of the Americans because they expose Brussels censorship, interference and manipulation. Here is the truth from America. This is the true Voice of America,” he said in summary.
Regarding the economic results achieved, the Prime Minister said “what we pledged to do we did, and this will be so in the next four years as well.”
Mr Orbán highlighted that they had pledged to achieve a breakthrough in taxation. They announced the doubling of the tax benefit available in relation to children, pledged to make the infant and child care benefits income tax-free and pledged to pay members of the armed forces a six-monthly arms allowance; and they honoured all their pledges.
He also said they have been building a family-based Hungary for 15 years, and as “in Hungary, families are kept together by mothers,” they must be reinforced. He stressed that Hungary only had a future if mothers felt financially safe with their children. This year, half a million Hungarian mothers will be granted tax exemption, while in the next three years a million – for life.
He added that had they not introduced the present family support system in 2010, today, there would be 200,000 fewer children in Hungary. “Is there greater pride and joy than this if you’re in government?” he asked.
In continuation, he said they also agreed to curb inflation, and in January inflation was just 2 per cent. Price cap on foodstuffs, a price monitoring system, mandatory promotions. “But we haven’t got to the end of it yet” because it is not right that potatoes are bought from Hungarian farmers for 60 forints, and they are sold in supermarkets for 300 forints. The patriotic government will have plenty of work to do also after April, he observed.
He said they also pledged to launch a manhunt and to hunt down drug dealers who flooded Hungary with toxic concoctions and synthetic drugs. They have instituted more than ten thousand criminal procedures, have withdrawn 50 tonnes of drugs and drug ingredients from the market, and have confiscated assets associated with drug dealing worth more than two billion forints. “We pledged to do it, and we did it,” he stated.
He said they did not pledge to do it, but they nonetheless introduced a fixed 3 per cent housing credit programme, and today in the whole of Europe, young people have the easiest access to homes of their own in Hungary. They likewise did not pledge to do it, but they nonetheless introduced the fourteenth monthly pension, the first instalment of which has already been paid together with the thirteenth monthly pension. Neither did they pledge to do it, but they nonetheless raised the minimum wage by 11 per cent, he added.
Mr Orbán said the next goal is to create another 300,000 new jobs and to reach the target of 5 million people in employment. He pointed out that they would like everyone who was able to work to find work. They have already created a million jobs, today as many as 4.7 million people have jobs, but they want to reach 5 million, and for this we need another 300,000 new jobs “which we will create.”
He also said they have been running a pay rise programme for fifteen years, they have raised the minimum wage four and a half-fold and the average wage four-fold, but they will carry on and want to reach an average wage of one million forints. He promised to continue the fixed 3 per cent first-home credit programme until every young person had their own home. They will fully implement the tax exemption of mothers during the period extending to 2029, and will also fully introduce the fourteenth monthly pension, he listed. He said those who have already seen governments know that this is more than enough to accomplish in the next four years.
He also spoke about the fact that regarding programmes, the opponent had come up with a novel invention, they announced in advance that they would lie. They told it to the country’s face that they will not tell the truth because if they did, they would fail and would never win an election. It is no wonder that even former prime minister Gyurcsány has retired; ‘morning, noon and night’ would not be enough here, not even he could compete with this, he observed.
He further mentioned the Balmazújváros by-election and the government-party victory. He said that according to the left-liberal press, this victory does not count, and in fact, it is bad for the government parties. He promised that when they also win the national elections in two months’ time, they will endure it with quiet serenity when they report that the victory is defeat itself.
The Prime Minister highlighted that the people were on their side on all the major civilisational issues. He pointed out that the people did not want migration, did not want war, did not want to send their money to Ukraine and found it inconceivable that such a person should be put in charge of the education of their children who believes that it is good to read a bedtime story to children from the storybook ‘Sleeping Barry’ about two princes falling in love with each other. This quite simply cannot happen in Hungary, Mr Orbán stated.
He said while touring the country, he also saw that they have with them those enormous masses living off work who wake up early in the morning, work during the day, raise their children after work, look after their parents, and keep their families together. The elderly who worked throughout their lives and know that the future can only be built on work are also on their side. The elderly would like young people to continue their work, and do not want adventurers dispatched here from Brussels to squander what they have built, he pointed out.
A great many young people, too, are with them. The majority of them are not content with fake rebelling, with crying ‘filthy Fidesz’ at parties. Naturally, there are young people like that, but there were loudmouths and armchair revolutionaries also in their time, he observed. He said he meets a great many young people who love their country, think about their future seriously and take on the real rebelling against the idiotic instructions dispatched from Brussels, international networks and big capital. “These young people are with us. I think they’re in the majority. We appeal to them: Come and fight for your country,” Mr Orbán said.
Regarding the patriotic side, Mr Orbán said wherever he goes in the country, be that an anti-war rally or some other kind of gathering, he meets with determined, optimistic and cheerful people. “This is a serene and strong community, Europe’s strongest political community which displays determination and will. This community wants to win in the elections, and will,” he observed.
Concerning their opponents, however, all he saw was anger, aggression, hatred, discontent, but you cannot build a community from these. “Our opponents have gone so far as to organise known criminals into gangs, and transport them around the country in order to disturb the meetings of Fidesz,” he said, expressing resentment, adding that we must not allow Tisza to drive us into the world of the law of brute force, Hungary deserves better than that.
He stressed that a national community could only be built from love and unity, and “however hateful our opponent is, we continue to believe in the strength of love and unity.”
Mr Orbán highlighted, however, that their real opponents were not the opposition parties in Hungary, not Tisza, nor DK [Democratic Coalition], but their Brussels masters. DK have long since sold their soul, and are carrying the flag of the United States of Europe, meaning the Brussels Empire. This comes as no surprise to anyone, while the Tisza Party is “a downright Brussels creation,” he indicated.
He recalled that Fidesz had left the European People’s Party because they had not surrendered to the Germans, led by Herr Weber – he said in reference to the leader of the EPP – demanding the letting in of migrants, adding that “Tisza was formed by the Germans, under the leadership of Herr Weber and the motherly care of Ursula von der Leyen.”
Mr Orbán said it is a novelty that global big capital, which previously only worked in the background, also came out into the limelight.
“International financial power stands before us openly, bare in all its glory. They know, too, that the stakes are high. It’s as clear as day that the oil business, the world of bankers and the Brussels elite are preparing to form a government in Hungary,” he said. He added: The Left, “which now runs under the name ‘Tisza Ltd.’” and has already been given billions, represents them again, they concluded an agreement with them, they are their outpost, and will be the executor of their expectations. Therefore, they came to an agreement with Shell, and they came to an agreement with Erste Bank. Shell, along with the other actors of the energy sector, merely want to get their money back. Erste and the other banks, too, want the same. While Brussels is demanding its own share so that they can give it to Ukraine, he warned.
Shell, Erste and Brussels have formed a war alliance, he stated in summary. They are the ones who make money on the bloodshed; they are the ones who have a vested interest in the continuation of the fighting; they are the “tollkeepers of death, the dogs of war.” Naturally, they do not take part in the fighting, they have the Ukrainians for that, and if needs be, the neighbouring peoples of Central Europe, he observed.
Shell is one of the main winners of the war. They have made ten billion dollars on the war and the sanctions against the Russians. Their goal is to detach us from Russian oil and gas, to increase prices and to multiply their profits also in Hungary, he said, expressing resentment. He highlighted: they do not care that this will ruin Hungarian households and businesses. Today, Hungarians pay 250,000 forints annually on average for household energy. People in Poland pay 800,000, while people in the Czech Republic a million. “This is the future Shell intends for us, this is why they delegated their own representative into a prospective government,” he indicated.
He spoke about the fact that the patriotic government had involved international banks more in the sharing of public burdens; they have had enough of this, “they’ve had enough of the patriotic government, and they’ve also had enough of pro-people governance,” they want to get their money back, this is why they delegated a candidate for minister also from Erste into a prospective government.
Mr Orbán added: international banks also profit from the war in such a way that Brussels supports Ukraine from loans taken out from them. Meanwhile, “poor Europeans are being fed the story that their money serves a just cause, but in actual fact, western multinationals are lining their safes with it,” he said, stressing that Hungary only managed to stay out of the latest EU borrowing at the expense of grave conflicts.
If we allow the “Tisza–Brussels-big capital coalition” to enter into government, they will pocket Hungarian families, the Prime Minister stated. Their plan is that everyone will get what they want: Tisza can live out their unsatisfied political ambitions, big capital will get its money back, while Brussels can send the Hungarians’ money to Ukraine and can “push” Ukraine into the European Union, he said.
The Prime Minister stressed that the Tisza Party was indeed preparing for a change of regime as the patriotic government supporting Hungarian families would be replaced by the Brussels regime. Reduction of household energy bills, family support, housing – these “will all be history.”
Mr Orbán highlighted that the government had financed its family support measures by having taken away HUF 14,956 billion forints in total between 2010 and 2025 from three economic sectors: banks, the energy sector and supermarket chains. They are planning to collect HUF 1,922 billion from the same sources this year. He stressed that these companies had not gone bankrupt as a result, they had made fair profits on their activities in Hungary. However, in the event of a change of governments, they would seek to first stop the extra taxes and would then start “re-collecting” the sums taken away from them earlier, he stated.
He Prime Minister further said also in 2002 they drew attention to the fact that if the socialists won the elections, “big capital and money would form a government, and they would take everything away.” He said at the time we paid a high price for the fact that half the country did not listen to them as the whole country, every family found themselves at the receiving end for eight years.
He recalled that the socialist governments had denied plans to increase the price of gas – the same as Tisza did now – while they had increased the price of gas fifteen times “over a period of eight miserable years.” They also said that they would keep what was good, the housing support, the Széchenyi Plan, while one year later, there was neither housing support, nor Széchenyi Plan. And they did not care that the unaffordable household energy bills would ruin Hungarian families, he said. “There was impoverishment, indebtedness, unemployment, suffering, and finally default,” he pointed out.
Mr Orbán said Europe has decided to go to war by 2030, and the April elections will be the last pre-war elections in Hungary. The next government will have to decide on the issue of war and peace, he pointed out. The Prime Minister said Brussels has decided to defeat the Russians in the territory of Ukraine; in all countries, other than in Hungary and Slovakia, wartime preparations are well under way. He stated that there was mandatory conscription in nine countries now, and there was one country where this had also been extended to women.
They are sending out guidelines to members of the public about what they should do in the event of a war. Military expenditures have skyrocketed. They are signing agreements about sending troops to Ukraine, he listed, adding that so far, Brussels has spent almost 200 billion euros on the war in Ukraine. In December, there was another loan of 90 billion euros. “And Ukraine keeps swallowing the money,” he said, stating in continuation that now, they are demanding 800 billion dollars for general operations and 700 billion for the army. Meanwhile, no one knows the answer to the simple question of how to defeat a nuclear power without it deploying its nuclear arms.
Mr Orbán said what Europe and Brussels are doing is enormous irresponsibility.
“As long as there is a patriotic government, we will not send weapons, our money can’t be taken away, and our youths can’t be taken to Ukraine. No, no and no!” he stressed.
He spoke about the fact that Hungary knew what war was like over there, we had already been in one once before. At the River Don, Hungarian boys died for foreign ambitions, on foreign orders, in a foreign land. Once was more than enough, he laid down.
The Prime Minister said “our mission is to preserve the independence and sovereignty of Hungary.” There was a time when the whole of Europe was like this and thought like this. However, today, what is West of here is different from our world. It is a mixture, a state of confusion, something uncertain, something soulless, something that is about to unfold and no one knows what it will be. By contrast, in Hungary, “there is order and security, Hungary is Europe’s safest country.” “Self-confident calm, a Hungarian world which suits us, in which we feel at home and of which we’re proud. And we want it to stay that way. Therefore, Fidesz–KDNP [Christian Democratic People’s Party] is the safe choice,” the Prime Minister stated.
Mr Orbán reminded his audience that after the lost battles and wars, our opponents had intended for us the fate of being small and poor. “For decades, they taught us to be weak and losers. To resign ourselves to our fate. We won’t!” he laid down, stressing that they came along and invite everyone to join them to make Hungary a great and rich country again. “We have done a great deal of work, and are making good progress. But we haven’t yet finished this job. This is why we must and this is why we will win the April elections,” he pointed out. At the end of his speech, he said 2026 will be a year of victory: a year of victory for families, for the Right, for Fidesz, and a year of victory for Hungary.
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