There are three ways to plunder the Hungarians; we can only resist this if we have a patriotic government. A patriotic government which does not just want to, but is also able to say no, Prime Minister-President of Fidesz Viktor Orbán stated at an election rally in Ócsa on Tuesday.
The Prime Minister mentioned in first place that Europe decided to give the Ukrainians money for the continuation of the war, and will to this end take out a loan which will be guaranteed by the Member States. He pointed out: they will force us into debt slavery if a pro-Ukraine government is formed in Hungary.
He mentioned detachment from cheap Russian energy as the second way. The plan was to help a pro-Ukraine government into power, to shut down the oil pipeline, there will be no petrol, no fuel, the economy will come to a halt, there will be chaos for which the Prime Minister will be held responsible. They managed to prevent this, he underlined, observing that Zelenskyy “notoriously” only ever names dates falling beyond the date of the Hungarian elections for the reopening of the Druzhba pipeline.
If a pro-Ukraine government were to come into power, they would not have to reopen the pipeline ever again, he indicated, and warned: following this, the Hungarians, too, would pay exactly the same for household energy as everyone else in the other countries of the region, meaning that an entire monthly salary would disappear.
In connection with the third option, he said in the past 16 years, they have taken HUF 15,000 billion away from banks, large international energy companies and retail chains and have given it to the Hungarian people for family support, housing and pensions. If the banker parachuted into Tisza from Erste becomes minister for the economy, he will not recommend the maintenance of this practice.
We can only resist this, if we have a patriotic government. “If you want a patriotic government, vote for Fidesz because Fidesz is the safe choice,” Mr Orbán stressed.
He also said they have doubled the tax benefit available in relation to children, and they have managed this despite the fact that we have lost EUR 10 billion in the meantime. In 2022, Hungary paid EUR 7 billion for energy, and then after a rise in prices, EUR 17 billion. If this is converted into forints, from the equivalent it would have been possible to build 1,500 kilometres of motorway and 40 brand-new hospitals, but this money was taken away by the war and the flawed Brussels policy of sanctions.
Under such circumstances, in addition to families, they have also been able to take care of the elderly, to restore the thirteenth monthly pension, to start introducing the fourteenth monthly pension, and to launch a fixed three per cent first home programme for young people. Today, young Hungarians have the easiest access to housing in the whole of Europe, he laid down.
“We have managed all this because we have been able to stay out of the war and we have been able to resist the pressure from Brussels to give our money to the Ukrainians. The Hungarians’ money is in a better place in Ócsa than in Donetsk,” he pointed out.
He recalled the support Hungary provided for Ukrainian refugees and pointed out: they did everything a Christian country can be expected to, “but no one can ask us to help someone else by destroying ourselves in the process. Therefore, we say no and stay out of the war, we’re not sending people, weapons or money.”
He described the past four years as a difficult, arduous, but above all, unfair period as in the shadow of the war we have been compelled to ward off troubles that we did not cause ourselves, but which nonetheless had a negative impact on us. He observed that in peacetime “we would have been able to make two to three times more progress,” and we would have deserved that result, but the war is blocking the economy.
At the same time, he encouraged members of the audience to appreciate the results achieved, including the fact that today Hungary is Europe’s safest country. As part of this, he mentioned that Hungary does not accept the migration pact to enter into force within a few months, in consequence of which several thousand people would be sent here and we would be compelled to build camps for the reception of tens of thousands of migrants. He said one of the most difficult issues of the coming months will be how not to implement this decision, reserving the right to decide whom we live together with.
Among the results achieved, he mentioned: we have succeeded in preserving the workfare economy in which today 1.1 million more people have jobs than in 2010 when just 3.6 million had jobs. He added: during the next term of government, they will increase this number to five million and the average wage to a million forints.
Mr Orbán said in a country living off work, the people’s places are designated by the quality of the work they complete, and today in Hungary, the performance of a blue-collar worker doing a decent job is worth more than the work of a poorly performing brain surgeon.
He further mentioned: neither have they been compelled to give up the idea of supporting families, the reinforcement of families is the number one priority for a patriotic government.
The Prime Minister thanked incumbent Member of Parliament for the constituency Károly Pánczél for his work completed for an independent and free Hungary, and then asked members of the audience to support Zoltán Bóna, stressing that the candidate has done an excellent job in the past four years as well.
Mr Orbán also said in the past two weeks they “have ploughed” one half of the country, while in the next two weeks they will also plough the other half. He recalled that the supporters of Tisza attacked everyone in digital space: “You stand up for your opinion, and then they attack you in packs in order to intimidate and frighten you away,” he pointed out. He added: Tisza supporters pushed the government parties into “a silent majority,” but in the past two weeks, they have put an end to this.
“Everywhere we are two to three times more than they are. We are not a silent, but a loud majority, and we will win,” the Prime Minister said in Ócsa.
