March 15 – DK: no freedom without rule of law, democratic institutions

Budapest, March 15 (MTI) – The leader of the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) on Wednesday said freedom is only compatible with the rule of democratic law and institutions, which Hungary’s prime minister had ruined over the past seven years.

Speaking at his party’s March 15 commemoration, ex-premier Ferenc Gyurcsány called on his audience to dare to be free and be good Hungarians and Europeans at the same time. He said the freedom of the Hungarian nation is inseparable from the freedom of Europe just as it was in 1848.

Gyurcsány said “a key part of our shared European tradition is respect for human dignity, which the current Hungarian government neglects even though human dignity is not a right assigned to us by the government but one that all humans are born with and deserve.”

Gyurcsány said those who believe that isolation and rejection are the right answer to the current challenges the continent faces are having an argument not with the European Commission but with “our European roots””.

Instead of isolation, DK would like Hungary to be an open country where different mentalities can co-exist and people are not afraid of those belonging to different nations and dare to act with humanity, he said.