It is unacceptable and shameful that secret services are conducting operations against the government in the interest of the Tisza Party and through the Tisza Party, Prime Minister-President of Fidesz Viktor Orbán stated on Monday at the election rally of the government parties in Kecskemét.
Mr Orbán said it is shameful and unacceptable that the foreign minister’s telephone conversations are tapped in Hungary, adding that they will retaliate for this.
The Prime Minister highlighted: We arrived at a crossroads. Europe is preparing for war, the Ukrainians want to enter the EU, and demand that Hungary detach itself from cheap Russian energy, send weapons and money to Ukraine, and join the group of pro-war countries.
“You will decide whether our country will have a patriotic government or a pro-Ukraine government supported by Brussels,” he told members of his audience.
The Prime Minister pointed out that Hungary could be neither blackmailed, nor shamed. Hungary is facing difficult decisions, and therefore, we will need a very strong government in the next four years, Mr Orbán laid down, adding that the government derives its strength from the people standing behind it.
“We are facing historic responsibility, and so we must score a historic victory,” Mr Orbán said.
“We must decide who should form a government,” the Prime Minister said. “Me or Zelenskyy. If the choice is so limited, I’d recommend myself,” he said.
The Prime Minister pointed out: this is not the time to experiment, this is a time when we need security, experience, knowledge, cold blood, a clear head and a firm hand. The tasks facing Hungary today require experience, knowledge, composure, strategic calm. “I may not become any younger, but I may still become wiser,” Mr Orbán observed, adding that he can still use his experience.
“Whatever happens, we will protect Hungary against all threats facing the country,” the Prime Minister said, promising that if they receive the electorate’s trust, he will form a government which will stand with the Hungarians wholeheartedly, which will protect them from all troubles and which will enable them to stay out of the war.
Hungary never wanted war in the 20th century either. But there were formidable leaders at the head of the country in vain, we did not succeed in staying out of the war. We did not because there was not sufficient national unity behind the then governments, the Prime Minister pointed out.
Mr Orbán asked everyone to not just vote for Fidesz, but to convince everyone – relatives, work colleagues, neighbours – that today Hungary needs security, and that today in Hungary, Fidesz is the only safe choice.
The Prime Minister said a pro-Ukraine government would be dangerous not only because it would be unreasonable, but also because it would destroy the future of our children and grandchildren as well. The European Union has no money for the war, and therefore, when giving money to Ukraine, it is doing so from credit guaranteed by the Member States. The Ukrainians will have to repay the loans once they have defeated the Russians and they have paid Ukraine reparations – something that we know will never happen.
“These loans will have to be repaid by the Member States, by your children and grandchildren,” he pointed out.
Today, they want to give Ukraine EUR 90 billion, but there is a package worth USD 800 billion and another worth USD 700 billion on the table; one to maintain Ukraine as a state, the other one for armaments. If Hungary takes part in these loans, we will indebt the future of our children and grandchildren, the Prime Minister stressed.
On 12 April, we will have to decide whether our children will live as independent and free people, or as debt slaves. If we elect a pro-Ukraine government, even our children will be debt slaves; if we elect a patriotic government, we will have a future that we ourselves will decide on, Mr Orbán laid down.
The Ukrainians decided to impose an oil blockade on Hungary. They thought that Hungary would not be able to supply itself if they closed the Druzhba oil pipeline down. However, the government has found a solution, and has sent a clear message: Hungary cannot be blackmailed because they will run out of money before we run out of oil, the Prime Minister stated.
“We stated clearly that until we receive our oil, they will not get their loan. Our answer to the oil blockade is a loan veto,” Mr Orbán stressed, threatening to also stop the gas supply which goes to Ukraine via the territory of Hungary on a regular basis. He said 40 per cent of Ukraine’s power supply is received from Hungary. “If that’s what it takes, we will also stop that because we will break the oil blockade,” he added.
In 2010, the Fidesz-Christian Democratic People’s Party Alliance received a two-thirds mandate which they repaid by having immediately created Hungary’s civic, patriotic and Christian constitution. A constitution which protects families, Christian traditions and values, which lays down that the father is a man and the mother is a woman, the Prime Minister pointed out.
The government has created a workfare economy: while in 2010, just 3.6 million people had jobs in Hungary, today as many as 4.7 million do, and if they continue in government, by the end of the next four years, 5 million people will have jobs and the average income will reach a million forints, the Prime Minister told his audience.
In Mr Orbán’s words, we have four tough war years behind us, and not a single soldier, not a single weapon and not a single forint has been sent from Hungary to Ukraine. “I have kept my promise, Hungary has stayed out of this war,” the Prime Minister laid down.
He said four years ago, they pledged that come what may – whatever trouble, misfortune, external pressure – “we will not allow Hungary to be dragged into the war. This is what we pledged in 2022, and we have delivered on our pledge,” he stressed.
He highlighted: while the war is blocking the economy, they restored the thirteenth monthly pension that was taken away by the Left, also began to introduce the fourteenth monthly pension, and if they receive a mandate for the next four years, they will agree to complete the full fourteenth monthly pension by the end of the term.
The Prime Minister stressed that neither had they forgotten about young people. Today, Hungary is the country in Europe where young people have the easiest access to a home of their own with the aid of the fixed 3 per cent housing loan programme. “You may earn more in the West, but a Hungarian worker will never own a property, will never have a home of their own in the West. Here in Hungary, however, this is possible. We supported the first home project and will continue to do so in the future as well,” he added.
Mr Orbán’s message to young people is to stay at home, while those who left out of a sense of adventure and “got tired of the world outside” will have somewhere to come back home to, “you will have a roof of your own over your heads, you will have homes of your own, you will have a future here in Hungary.”
He said they also pledged that however difficult the situation might be, families would continue to remain in the focus of the government’s policy. “Family is the most important thing; if there are children, there is a future, if there aren’t children, there is no future,” he said, adding that they are grateful to families which, by deciding to have children, also contribute to the survival of the nation, beyond their own personal happiness.
He said while there is no family without men, families are kept together by mothers. Therefore, in Hungary they introduced a regime which does not exist anywhere else in the world, the lifetime tax exemption of mothers with two children.
“Let us be proud that we were capable of this,” he said.
Regarding the city of Kecskemét and the people of Kecskemét, Mr Orbán said “you have always been famous because you have been famously good at agriculture and the food industry,” and this is so also at present. However, Kecskemét is no longer just an agricultural city, but one of the most modern hubs of European industry.
“While in Germany factories are being closed down, people are being laid off, here, Mercedes is now opening a new plant and will hire 3,000 people,” he said. In his view, the next 25 years “is guaranteed” for the people of Kecskemét, with the agreement concluded with Mercedes, the city “struck it lucky, there are very few safe places in Hungary where jobs, good incomes and livelihoods are guaranteed for the next 25 years.”
He encouraged the people of Kecskemét to be proud of the fact that in the middle of mere ploughland, they managed to create one of Europe’s most modern industrial hubs, and “if we’re capable of that, then we Hungarians are capable of anything.”
The Prime Minister said it is important to state, “just to calm down Tisza supporters,” that in the past 16 years they have doubled Hungary’s public assets. During the history of the country, foreign currency reserves are at the highest level today.
“When we took over in 2010, Hungary’s gold reserves stood at 3 tonnes; today they stand at 103,” he pointed out.
Mr Orbán also spoke about the fact that the first week of the campaign had been completed. “Based on the past week,” he can confidently say that “we are in the majority,” that was his experience everywhere, and the campaign is also a useful means to see the difference between their opponents and themselves. “Anything they ever say is only about themselves, spite and denigration; we speak to each other, about the country, homeland, the future, the stakes of the elections,” he laid down.
Addressing Tisza supporters standing in the rear of the crowd, he said they have to understand that “you can build neither a future, nor a country on hatred and anger.” “We may have disputes, but the country, the nation can only be built on love and unity,” he stressed, adding that he is proud and happy to belong to such a political community, rather than to the community of spite and denigration.
He asked Tisza supporters to not allow their hearts to harden because on 12 April “when we win the elections, a new day will dawn, 13 April, when we will find out that at the end of the day, we’re all Hungarians and we must combine forces to solve the problems facing us.”
“Don’t allow hatred to get the better of you so that later you can cooperate with us victors,” he warned.
The Prime Minister asked voters in Kecskemét to put their trust in the upcoming elections in government party candidates László Salacz and Tamás Cseh who are excellent, reliable, kind-hearted and loyal people that Kecskemét and also the prime minister of the civic-patriotic side can always count on.
Thanking the people for their support in the past four and 16 years, Mr Orbán said “we have a common passion called Hungary, this is what we will serve with our hard work, and Hungary will grow, become richer and rise even despite the war.”
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