Fidesz group leader slams Soros’s Davos speech

Gergely Gulyás, parliamentary group leader of ruling Fidesz, has slammed US financier George Soros over a speech he gave at the World Economic Forum in Davos in which he called Hungary a “mafia state”.

Gulyás called Soros’s speech “yet another attack against Hungary’s sovereignty”. He said the billionaire had made it clear in his speech that his views on Hungary’s upcoming election are “based on his own interests” and that “he believes not in the power of the people but in the power of money”.

“We already knew that he [Soros] wants to influence Hungarian political life… that he wants to influence Hungarian politics by putting his faith in financial resources rather than democracy,” Gulyás said.

But in Hungary, regardless of whether or not one agrees with the cabinet’s decisions, it is up to the voters to decide who will represent them in parliament and who will get to form a government, he insisted.

Gulyás said that irrespective of political leanings, everyone in Hungary should be outraged when someone refers to their country as a “mafia state”.

The group leader said that the Hungarian government “indeed poses an obstacle to Brussels’s pro-migration policy” which he said saw Europe’s future in migration rather than effective family policies.