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Orbán urges voters to ‘back Hungarian interests’ at EP election
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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in an interview on Sunday urged all Hungarians “who love their country and support its interests” to participate in the European Parliament election on May 26.
“Brussels must be shown that what is happening in Hungary is what the Hungarian people want,” Orbán told public radio. “It is not in Brussels in the offices of parties pushed and pulled to the left and George Soros-type civil organisations that will decide what happens in Hungary and Europe,” Orbán said.
“We are not going to follow the dictates of Brussels if these are no good for Hungarians,” he added.
The prime minister said that when Brussels had demanded austerity measures in 2010, the Hungarian government sent the IMF packing and cut taxes. When they wanted “banks to be able to collect forex loans hundred-fold from the people” the government called banks to account. And when Brussels wanted high public utility fees, Hungary instead cut the utility fees, he added.
“Then they said we should let the migrants in and we built a fence,” he said. “And now they say we should accept returning migrants, but we refuse to approve the mandatory settlement quotas,” he added.
Commenting on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s statement that it is unacceptable for certain member states to bar migrants, Orbán said pro-migration countries and their leaders had not given up on their “plan to change central Europe”.
“But central European have the moral upper hand because, unlike westerners, they don’t impose their ideas about how to live on others,” he added.
“Hungary will not give up its basic rights … and Hungarians will continue to make decisions on important issues that determine people’s lives here,” he said.
“The Brussels elite lives in a bubble and has lost touch with reality,” he said, adding that national interests must be firmly planted and given priority.
Commenting on the ruling Fidesz party’s membership of the European People’s Party, Orbán said: “we have won time”. Given that 13 parties requested Fidesz’s expulsion from the EPP, the outcome was acceptable, he added.
“After the European elections, we in Fidesz will decide what’s best for Hungary; whether to carry on as part of the EPP or find our place in a new party grouping.” All of the 13 parties that wanted to expel Fidesz “are pro-migration”, he added.
Fidesz, he insisted, could not be expelled or suspended from the EPP. The Hungarian ruling party, he added, is governing for a fourth term was the most successful European party in the last three EP elections. Had the dispute reached a point going beyond a solution, Fidesz would have quit the EPP, Orbán said.
The struggle is joined where an independent nation, as Hungary is, is being coerced by the group mentality of the EU whose sole task is to strip nations of their very sovereignty to be able to mold them in the directon of its ‘particular’ whim and wishes ! and not necessarily in the best overall interest of the independent nation !!
Prime Minister Viktor Orban makes this very clear in his many points raised above, not least, referring to the EPP in the time of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl — “It (EPP) has lost its sovereignty,is dictated to from the left and even wants to work together with it,” Orbán said.
The issue is clear its – sovereignty !, and a nation’s right to make decisions in its own national interest of heritage and culture !
John H.Morton.
I was watching and listening to the great speech of Mr. Orbán! Now I am waiting for the reaction of the so-called free press.
Is here a dictator explaining the role of Hungary? Don’t they know anything about the recent past of Hungary? Are they still deaf and blind?
Mr. Orbán is called a dictator but they forget the fact that many real dictators are present in Brussels! It is not what you know but who you know. The EU can be deleted as far as I am concerned. IT only brings problems to thje people. I hope that in May a different wind will blow over Europe and that we can continue to live as we want it.