Our Real Political Opponents Are in Brussels, Says Prime Minister

L-R: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Fidesz parliamentary group leader Máté Kocsis

On Tuesday, Viktor Orbán, President of Fidesz, gave a private speech at a Fidesz-KDNP meeting in Balatonfüred. Among other issues, the Prime Minister touched on the US elections, the fight over the 13th month pension, and the migration situation, Magyar Nemzet reports.

Viktor Orbán began his assessment of the situation by saying that with the inauguration of Donald Trump as president, the representatives of the globalist liberal ideology have lost the capital of the most powerful power in the Western world. In Washington, a nationalist, anti-immigration government has come to power, representing traditional family-based thinking instead of gender ideology. A government that is friendly to Hungary and treats us as a partner has taken office, the Prime Minister stressed.

He added that the Soros network had lost Washington, and the new government had begun to dismantle it, which meant that the “dollar shower” was over, and that the Soros family could now rely only on Brussels and European taxpayers’ money.

Mr. Orbán warned MPs that

the ideology that failed in Washington still dominates Brussels, where Hungary is treated as an enemy, and that our country’s real political opponents are in Brussels.

“They want to overthrow the national government, and they want to put a puppet government on the necks of the Hungarians, and they want to tell us Hungarians what we can and cannot do. They are the empire, and we are the resistance who are going to stop them,” the Prime Minister stressed.

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Orbán then summarized Brussels’ demands, to which the government will not concede. As he said, Brussels is unjustly fining Hungary one million euros for not letting migrants in; they want the government to repeal the child protection law; and they want them to abolish the cuts in the public utility bill, he explained. He also said that Brussels was aiming to abolish the 13th month pension, but the government would not meet these demands in the interests of the majority of Hungarians.

The Prime Minister also talked about the threat posed by Ukraine’s membership of the EU. If this is pushed through, Hungarian farmers will lose their area-based subsidies and the money will go to Ukraine, he said.

The Americans are withdrawing funding from Ukraine, and Brussels will want to make Europeans, including us Hungarians, pay for this. The proposal is already on the table that we Hungarians should give HUF 200 billion (EUR 498.5 million) a year to Ukraine, the party leader stated. He argued that

for the time being there were no preconditions for Ukraine’s EU membership, so that was out of the question.

Mr. Orbán added that Donald Trump and Elon Musk had exposed the political corruption network of George Soros and the Democrats, who distributed billions of dollars to the media and international organizations, including in Hungary. In this context, Orbán asked MPs to pass strict laws and ban those who benefited from these funds from Hungary.

The Prime Minister concluded his speech by talking about who they are and who their opponents are. He said that in this battle, they are the ones who are rebelling against the empire, for the Hungarians, so that they cannot impose their will on them from Brussels. “We are important to the empire because the commercial multinationals, the energy companies, the foreign banks want to take home as much profit as possible. These companies could still make money here, because we have prevented them from doing so in the interests of the Hungarian people. And if they were to come back, it would be the families who would pay the price, in terms of overheads, public safety, and jobs. The danger we are talking about is serious, and we must take it seriously,” Orbán explained.

Via Magyar Nemzet, Featured photo via MTI/Miniszterelnöki Sajtóiroda/Fischer Zoltán