Mr Orbán argued: letting the Ukrainians into the European Union is not in the Hungarian people’s best interests “because they would immediately destroy our agriculture, because they would take our money away and would bring the war in.” He highlighted: “I’m telling this to all three communities of ours, our supporters, the undecided and Tisza supporters, that your children and grandchildren’s future and money are at stake.” “They would turn us into debt slaves and would pocket the Hungarians,” he stressed.
The Prime Minister also spoke about the fact that there was a threat of us “being detached from cheap Russian energy.” If that happens, “there will be no protected prices at petrol stations, there will be a petrol price of a thousand forints,” he stated, adding that neither will there be reduced household energy prices, as a result of which every Hungarian would lose an entirely monthly income.
He asked members of the audience to renew the anti-war alliance they concluded in 2022 in order that they can keep the country out of the war in the next four years as well. The question is not whether we want war, but whether we are able to elect a government in Hungary which can say no, and “it pains me to say, Dear Tisza Supporters, you have leaders who can’t say no either to the Ukrainians or to Brussels,” he stressed.
He added that Tisza was, in actual fact, supported by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Brussels because they wanted a pro-Ukraine government in Hungary. The Prime Minister said it is not easy to say no, but the civic, patriotic and Christian community of the Fidesz-Christian Democratic People’s Party alliance has experience in this: in 1989 they said no to the Soviets, during the migration crisis to the Germans, in 2022 they had to say no to Brussels and to the war, and now in 2026, we must say no to the Ukrainians. Members of the Fidesz-Christian Democratic People’s Party government are able to say no; therefore, Fidesz is the safe choice, he laid down.
Mr Orbán said at these elections, they will not simply need a two-thirds mandate, but the concordant will of three million people to be able to keep Hungary out of the war in the next four years as well. He recalled that he had vetoed the EUR 90 billion loan that was intended for Ukraine, and had achieved that Hungary should stay out of it.
The Ukrainians have no money for the war, neither does the EU, but they want money and therefore, they take out a loan which is guaranteed by the Member States, he explained, adding that the Ukrainians will repay this money once they have defeated the Russians and they have paid them reparations. He said this means that in actual fact, the Member States securing the loan will have to repay this money with interest.
If “a pro-Ukraine Tisza government pushes Hungary into such a loan, even our children and grandchildren will be repaying that loan,” he said.
The Prime Minister also said that the past four years have been unfair because Hungary has been compelled to deal with the consequences of a war it is not responsible for, and the war is blocking the economy. Despite this, the government has maintained its earlier goals and against the background of a 1 per cent economic growth, they have achieved an 11 per cent minimum wage increase, introduced income tax-exemption for the under 25s, launched a fixed 3 per cent housing credit programme, introduced income tax-exemption for mothers with minimum two children, doubled the tax benefit available in relation to children, restored the thirteenth monthly pension and started introducing the fourteenth monthly pension as well, he listed.
The Prime Minister asked the attendees of the rally “to speak to your neighbours, work colleagues and family members, tell everyone in the next two weeks what’s at stake in these elections and that we need every decent Hungarian so that we can stay out of the war.”
He stressed: he believes that the government parties will win the elections, but in order to do that, they will yet have to work hard because there are still two weeks left. He indicated that since the Peace March they had embarked on the campaign in earnest. Together with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and Minister for Construction and Transport János Lázár they “have ploughed half of Hungary,” and in the next two weeks, they “will plough the other half as well.”
Describing the difference between Fidesz-Christian Democratic People’s Party and Tisza, Mr Orbán said the government side is a community which believes in the strength of love and unity, while the other side only ever reviles, “snarls at everyone, they’re driven by hatred and anger.” “I have this piece of good advice that I’d like to place on the hearts of Tisza supporters: don’t allow your hearts to harden because a country cannot be built on hatred and anger,” he pointed out.
He thanked Tisza supporters for coming, but warned them: they must understand that they are guests at the rally of Fidesz-Christian Democratic People’s Party,” and cannot expect “the peaceful and serene supporters of Fidesz and the Christian Democratic People’s Party to allow you to shout their heads off.” “We won’t allow that,” he laid down.
The President of Fidesz asked the attendees of the rally to support the local candidate of Fidesz-Christian Democratic People’s Party Norbert Katus, deputy mayor of Sülysáp, saying that “these are just the kind of government party Members of Parliament we need” after the election victory.
The Prime Minister also spoke about the fact that in recent years Pest County had become one of Hungary’s most important economic regions, its industrial output had doubled, unemployment had fallen to less than half, and the government had supported 354 investments in the county.
Mr Orbán thanked the people for the support he has received from them in the past 36 years. The best is not in the past, it is yet to come, he stated, adding that the wind is against us and there is a war in vain, Hungary could again have another four fantastic years.
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