Facebook statement by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

We’re on the road somewhere around Lepsény. We’re having our parliamentary group meeting in Balatonfüred. There will be plenty to talk about. Since the end of the autumn session of Parliament the world has turned upside down – and for once it’s not been to our detriment, but to our benefit. Because in mid-January the new US president took office, and that changed the Western world. We’ll talk about that, of course, but the most important thing is that the wind that was blowing in our faces is now blowing from behind us. In the last fifteen years we’ve had to put the Hungarian economy back on track, raise wages, give people jobs, and protect the thirteenth month’s pension and introduce it into the pension system. So on every issue the international community was against us. That’s now changed. Suddenly what we knew to be bad is now said to be good, and the essence of the new American policy is in line with Hungarian policy. This is a radically new situation. We’ve been able to launch a workers’ loan, we’ve raised the minimum wage, and we’ve launched a 21-point economic action plan, which includes the Sándor Demján Programme for small businesses. But with big changes now and even bigger changes ahead, it makes sense to launch new programmes. We must think big and think bold. I want to talk about the new programmes first and foremost, and I want to convince the members of the group of this.