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 Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s “State of the Nation” address

18 February 2023, Budapest

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Good afternoon.

Former Presidents Áder and Schmitt and your Dear Wives, Mister Speaker,
Leaders of Hungarian communities from beyond our borders, Ladies and
Gentlemen,

As you are certainly aware, around two weeks ago a devastating earthquake
shook Türkiye and Syria. The death toll is now over 44,000, and sadly this
is not yet the end. Sorrows come suddenly, without warning, without
knocking on the door, but simply smashing it open on us. In our sorrow, we
find out who we can count on. We Hungarians can be counted on: 167 of our
compatriots took part in the rescue work, and thirty-five people were
rescued from the rubble by experts and volunteers who risked their lives in
the process. Some of them are here with us now; let us salute our heroes,
who have honoured us with their presence here. Ladies and Gentlemen, thank
you for your sacrifice, a country is proud of you! Please stand up and let
us see you!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

So much has happened in the past year – an election, the war, an energy
crisis, inflation – that in fact I should spend several hours talking about
it. Please do not start making for the door: it is too late now, if you are
here, you are here. Tomorrow, on Sunday, you can rest yourselves after a
speech of Atatürk or Fidel Castro proportions. But I will keep it shorter
after all, because during a long political speech people lose their zest
for life – and we are not here to lose our zest for life, but to renew our
zest for life. And with that I have dived headlong into what I have to say.
Today the most important question for the future is whether the enormous
changes taking place in European life – which are bringing us new
intellectual, political, economic and military challenges – will enhance or
diminish Hungarians’ zest for life. These changes are putting pressure on
the whole of Hungarian life and are confronting us with new questions. The
success of the year 2023 will depend on whether we are energised by them or
deflated by them.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

As I circulate in international politics, I often think of the old
Hungarian song: “Mother, I Didn’t Want That Kind of Horse”. And indeed, we
Hungarians did not want to live in such a chaotic world. But, as my mother
would say, “Son, life is not a request show.” And she is right.

Everything had been so well thought out: we had cut our way through the
piles of rubble left behind by the socialist governments ousted in 2010,
through the ruins of Wild-East socialism, through unemployment, through an
economy gasping for breath, through foreign currency loans, through
disaffected envy, through prostration to the West, through sky-high utility
bills, through illicit gratuities in the healthcare system, through
cheating the system while living on welfare benefits, and through resigned
acceptance of the second-rate. We were just beginning to believe that there
would be a place in the sun for every Hungarian, and that such a place
would be here. It turned out that it is possible to live better from one’s
work than from benefits, that having children is not a burden but a joy –
or, to be more precise, a burden that is a joy. We were beginning to
believe that life here would be fruitful, that there would be enough for
everyone. We came to think that in order to get ahead we do not need to
take from one another or take that which belongs to others, because the
cake we can bake will be much bigger than any we have seen so far. One
million people have been given work, and never before in Hungary have so
many people been in work. The Hungarian economy has tripled in size and the
minimum wage is now higher than the average wage was under our Socialist
predecessors. We have brought forth a national Christian constitution that
is worthy of us. We have reorganised the Hungarian state with courage that
if not death-defying is at least Brussels-defying. And, brushing off the
naysayers, we have built a new Hungarian economy in which everyone has
received the chance to find their own destiny. True, it has been an arduous
ten years, we have sweated a lot, our knees and elbows have been grazed and
bruised, and we have collected our fair share of blisters; but we feel that
it has been worthwhile. We have learned how to make headway in the renewed
Hungary, we have seen that the effort has not been in vain, and it has
dawned on us Magyars that “once more our name and story shall match our
ancestors’ in glory”. This is why, after our first historic two-thirds
majority in 2010, we won a two-thirds majority in each of the three
subsequent parliamentary elections. We still gained such a majority now,
even though the entire Left in Hungary combined their forces against us,
even though Brussels tried to starve our treasury, and even though Uncle
George [Soros] rolled 4 billion forints here from America to provide his
comrades with ammunition – to shoot at us. They came a cropper, they shot
wide: not a little, a lot. They fell flat on their faces, and I think they
will pay the price.

Do you remember the film “Once Upon a Time in the West?” The dialogue at
the beginning of the film? The Charles Bronson character, “Harmonica”,
questions the three bandits waiting for him:

“And Frank?”

“Frank sent us”, they reply.

“Did you bring a horse for me?”

“No.”

Seeing their three horses, Harmonica says, “You brought two too many.”

This is what happened in Hungary in 2022. And as far as I can see, right
now the Hungarian Frank, our “Feri” [Ferenc Gyurcsány], is trying to round
up the horses that are left without owners. The lesson is that when you
look at your opponent you should judge them not by their numbers but by
their ability. It seems that God loves us.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Election victories – especially two-thirds majorities – are not something
that people just hand you on a plate. There is work behind them, and the
result of that work is appreciated by the people. Otherwise there will be
no victory – and certainly no two-thirds majority. Of course, there are
always malcontents, who think that we were just lucky. Fine, call it luck –
once. But four times? If you are always lucky, it is also possible that you
have something to offer; for example, you love your country and you are
prepared to fight for it – at home, if need be, or in the world at large,
if need be. The Left should understand that for victory millions of dollars
and influential patrons are not enough. For victory, Dear Friends, luck is
not enough: you need heart.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Just when we thought we were finally standing up straight, COVID hit us, in
the spring of 2020 – three years ago now. It brought us pain and
irretrievable losses. But we were right to hope that we would pull through
it, get back on our feet and pick up where we had left off. I thought that
we would arrive at where we always wanted to be. We would occupy the level
in the world entitled to us by our talent, hard work and history. We would
be among the best, somewhere in the vanguard. Once again, there would be
many children, many millions of hearts who awaited the good news of an
orderly, attractive and safe country, a green Carpathian Basin that can
withstand climate change. And even though the lion and the lamb would not
lie down together, we hoped that the Left would finally understand that
this is a common homeland, and that we have no other.

And then war struck – or broke out. It is now one year old, and by every
reckoning it could last for a long time – even several years, it seems.
Everything has changed – including in politics and in the economy. The West
has moved firmly in the direction of the Wild West. From the years of COVID
the world has not got back on track, but we have moved into the years of
war. In fact, since March 2020 – for almost three years – we have been
living our lives under constant pressure. And this could easily turn into
four or even five years. Of the thirty-two years since the fall of
communism, 2022 was the most difficult. It was the most difficult year.

When the West entered the war with sanctions, we had to rethink everything.
That occupied the months following the April election. We had to rethink
economic policy, defence policy, military policy, and all of our foreign
policy. In the glare of war, we had to re-examine all the major goals we
had set ourselves in 2010, after our first two-thirds victory. We are
nearing the end of this work. As I see it, there is no need to abandon or
give up the goals, only to change the means by which they will be achieved.
Our foreign policy remains: we want to continue to make friends, not
enemies; we want everyone – East and West, North and South – to have a
stake in the success of the Hungarians. The creation of connections instead
of the formation of blocs. National unification will continue, and
Hungarians beyond our borders can continue to count on us, because we are
of the same blood. Our family policy will remain, our work-based economy
will remain, our agreement with pensioners and the thirteenth month’s
pension will remain, and so will the protection of reductions in household
utility bills. We will continue the linking of universities to the economy.
We can keep the strategic sectors – the banking sector, the energy sector
and the media industry – in Hungarian hands, and we will even revive
Hungarian ownership in the telecommunications and infocommunications
sector. And we will not stop there, the windsock is already blowing in the
wind. Sorry! And the promise made to the provinces remains: we are
launching unprecedented developments and providing more resources than the
Hungarian provinces have ever seen – even under the Austro-Hungarian
Empire. Alongside agricultural production, we are building up agricultural
processing. We will revive the Hungarian food industry, which has been
devastated by privatisation, and we will have national champions in the
food industry who will also be able to compete in the world market. We
shall not tolerate Hungarians having to buy food that is dumped on us from
abroad. And we are retaining our plan for the eastern part of our country
to catch up with the rest. It is time to finally unite Hunnia and Pannonia
– both economically and in terms of living standards. This is why we are
building bridges on the Danube, why the one at Paks will be completed, and
why the one at Mohács will soon be started. We are placing the
Debrecen-Nyíregyháza-Miskolc triangle alongside the
Győr-Szombathely-Veszprém industrial zone. This will require energy, a lot
of energy – more than ever before in Hungary. This is why we will build
power stations and pipeline systems, even if Brussels is unwilling to play
a role. Later there will be more. And we will not give up our most daring
plan: to ensure that families with children are better off financially than
those who do not have children. So, war or no war, we will have new family
support decisions every year. The same is true this year, with women
committing to having children paying no personal income tax until the age
of 30. This is how it will be. But I know that for us Hungarians this is
not enough. We know the joke we inherited from socialism: “We know what
will happen, but the question is this: what will happen until then?”

Dear Friends,

If 2022 was the hardest year, 2023 will be the most dangerous year since
the fall of communism. Alongside migration, which is gradually becoming a
permanent feature, two new enemies and two new dangers are lurking: one is
war, and the other is inflation. If we want to return to the upward
trajectory from which the COVID pandemic pushed us, we must fend off these
two threats: we must overcome them, we must fight our way through them. But
how? Today this is what I will talk about.

How do we overcome the danger of war? We want to simply put an end to it,
but we do not have the power to do so – we are not in that league.
Therefore, if we want to protect Hungary, if we want a peaceful life for
ourselves, we have only one choice: we must stay out of the Russo-Ukrainian
war. So far this has not been easy, and it will not be easy in the future,
because we are part of the Western world, we are members of NATO and the
European Union, and everyone there is on the side of war – or at least acts
as if they are. Can Hungary afford to remain on the side of peace in such
circumstances, in a way that is directly opposed to that of our allies? Of
course we can, because Hungary is an independent, free and sovereign state,
and we recognise no one but God above us. But is it right – morally right –
for us to stay out of the war? I am convinced that it is the right thing –
and indeed the only right thing. Russia has attacked Ukraine, so we must
let Ukrainian refugees into our country, and we have done well in
supporting them with the largest humanitarian aid operation in our
country’s history. This is the imperative of basic humanity, and we are
complying with it. But we also see that the war in Ukraine is not a war
between the armies of good and evil, but a war between the troops of two
Slavic countries: a war limited in time and – for the time being – in
space. It is their war, not ours. Hungary recognises Ukraine’s right to
self defence, to fight against external aggression; but it would not be
right from any point of view – including any moral point of view – to put
the interests of Ukraine before those of Hungary. The Left in Hungary is
also on the side of war: it would supply arms, take on the financial burden
of war and sever relations with Russia. We are not doing this. We are not
supplying arms. We are also being careful with money, because in the end
the money due to us will be given by Brussels to Ukraine. For us,
humanitarian support for Ukraine does not mean severing our ties with
Russia, because that would run counter to our national interests, which we
have the right to define for ourselves. Therefore we shall not agree to
gas, oil or nuclear sanctions that would ruin Hungary. From the national
consultation we know that there is national unity on this. This is why we
are maintaining our economic relations with Russia; and indeed we are
advising the whole Western world to do the same, because without relations
there will be neither a ceasefire nor peace negotiations. This is why we do
not agree with priests and church leaders being placed on sanctions lists;
it is bad enough that this could happen to artists and athletes. And it is
also important not to narrow our vision, and not to be provincial. Let us
look beyond Brussels. Every country outside Europe is aware of the limited
significance of the war in Ukraine and the primacy of its own national
interest. Let us not isolate ourselves from the level-headed part of the
world. The Hungarian viewpoint is an exception only in Europe – across the
world it is the norm. The Hungarian government does not consider it
realistic to assume that Russia is a threat to the security of Hungary or
of Europe. Such an assumption is valid at most in relation to nuclear
weapons; but the war in Ukraine is increasing the risk of their use, rather
than reducing it. As far as conventional warfare is concerned, the Ukraine
war has shown that Russia would not stand a chance against NATO. We
understand that the Ukrainians are trying to convince Europe that the
Russians will not stop until they reach the Atlantic, but the Hungarians
are not buying that threat. The whole world has seen that Russian forces
are not in a position to attack NATO, and will not be in such a position
for a long time. I recall that a decade ago Hungary proposed the creation
of a joint European force, and today we can see how unfortunate it was that
this proposal fell on deaf ears.

Dear Friends,

While our pro-peace position and the pro-war position of others accentuate
differences between us, they also obscure the fact that we are in full
agreement on strategic objectives. We want Russia not to be a threat to
Europe, and we want there to be a sufficiently broad and deep area between
Russia and Hungary: a sovereign Ukraine. The difference between us is in
our view of the means to achieve this: those who support the war think that
this can be achieved by defeating Russia; and we think that it can be
achieved by an immediate ceasefire and negotiations. There is another
strong argument in favour of our proposal: the only thing that can save
lives is a ceasefire. Loss of life is already being expressed in the
hundreds of thousands. The pain, widowhood, growing numbers of orphans and
oceanic waves of suffering can only be calmed by a ceasefire.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The war has also revealed some instructive and weighty truths. Let us not
pass them by without speaking of them. First of all, there is the question
of our membership of NATO. Let us make it clear that for Hungary NATO
membership is vital. We are too far to the east – on the eastern edge of
the western world – to renounce it. It would of course be easier if we were
further in: following the example of Austria and Switzerland, we too could
play with the idea of neutrality. But history has not given us that luxury.
NATO is a defence alliance. It is a military defence alliance which was
formed so that we can defend one another. This is why we joined, and this
is why – thinking back to 45 years of Soviet occupation – I experienced the
historic satisfaction of signing the Treaty of Accession. It is at least as
important to clearly understand what NATO is not. NATO is not a war
alliance. NATO is not a war coalition. Membership of NATO does not imply
any obligation beyond joint defence, nor can member countries expect any
other member to jointly attack a third country for some joint military
objective. If some NATO members, or a group of them, want to carry out acts
of war outside the territory of the member countries, they must do so
outside the framework of NATO: those who want to will participate; those
who do not want to will not.

Dear Friends,

No matter how strong and powerful, anyone who thinks they can supervise,
manage and gradually calibrate the conduct of war is overestimating their
own power and underestimating the risky nature of war. Those who make such
mistakes are usually far removed from the devastating realities of
frontline warfare. But we live here, and the war is on the soil of a
neighbouring country. Brusselites have not yet sacrificed their lives in
this war, but Hungarians have. While Hungarian symbols are being taken down
in Munkács/Mukachevo, while Hungarian principals are being dismissed from
our schools, many are dying heroes’ deaths on the front. The Hungarian
minority in Transcarpathia does not deserve this. More respect for
Hungarians from Munkács/Mukachevo, Kyiv/Kiev, Brussels and Washington!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Europe is drifting towards war. It is balancing on a narrow plank. Indeed
its countries are already indirectly at war with Russia. If you supply
weapons, if you provide the satellite information for military action, if
you train the soldiers of one of the belligerents, if you finance the
entire state apparatus of one of the belligerents and impose sanctions on
the other, then, no matter what you say, you are at war – indirectly for
the time being. The risk of being drawn in is now chronic. It started with
helmets, it has continued with the delivery of non-lethal equipment, we are
now seeing tanks being sent, fighter planes are on the agenda, and soon we
will hear about so-called “peacekeeping troops”. It reminds one of
sleepwalkers on a roof. We also need to understand how the pro-war people
succumbed to somnambulism and how they ended up on the rooftops. Despite
all our differences of opinion, we understand our Polish and Baltic
friends: their history explains a great deal. But the others?

It did not have to happen this way – or rather it could have happened
differently. We could have given a guarantee that we would not admit
Ukraine to NATO; but we did the opposite, and confirmed our earlier
decision in 2008 that we would admit them. We could also have followed the
solution that we adopted in 2008 when the Russo-Georgian war broke out, and
Russia occupied 20 per cent of Georgia’s territory. Back then we decided to
prevent the fire spreading, and under the leadership of President Sarkozy –
who negotiated brilliantly – the conflict was localised and a ceasefire was
achieved. We could have done what we did in 2014 under Angela Merkel, when
Russia attacked Ukraine and annexed Crimea. Then we could have opted for
war, like the present one, but we – the West – chose a different option:
negotiation instead of combat, peace instead of war. I remember that there
were pro-war people then, but there was also strong German and French
leadership, which was brave and took timely action. That is how war was
avoided and the Minsk agreement was reached. A year ago the West decided
otherwise. When Russia launched an attack, the West did not isolate the
conflict, but elevated it to a pan-European level. It could have classified
it as a local, regional war or as a military conflict between two Slavic
states, as Hungary proposed. What happened is yet another argument against
the Brussels superstate and in favour of strong nation states. When the
Member States decided, there was peace; when the imperial centre decided,
there was war.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Looking to the future, it is also instructive to note how we lost our
pro-peace allies. A year ago we were not alone in the peace camp. There
were, for example, the Germans, who supplied no weapons, only helmets. By
comparison, in a few weeks’ time Leopard tanks will be rolling eastwards
across Ukrainian soil, down towards the Russian border. Perhaps even the
old maps are still around. The Germans turned together with the others, or
the others turned together with the Germans. That is how the peace camp
faded away. It is hard to believe that the Germans took this turn of their
own accord. Today they act as if they were always on board. The modern
German school: they do not simply change sides, but openly announce that
they are jumping right to the front. They are thorough people, and when
they do something, they do it seriously. And the other countries thought
that if the Germans could not resist that kind of external pressure then
they, too, would be unlikely to. And so they seeped from the peace camp
into the war camp. That left two of us: Hungary and the Vatican. We cannot
complain about the company, but we need to address some serious
consequences.

We need to honestly face the fact that the war is getting wilder and more
brutal, and so we had better be prepared for the tone used against us to
get harsher and more abusive: provocations, insults, threats and blackmail.
I cannot promise that it will be easy, but I can promise that we shall
stand our ground. Long gone are the days when we were subject to diplomatic
pressure which still respected sovereignty. Where are the good old days,
when in 2014 Hillary Clinton sent just one “good friend” to persuade the
Hungarians of the error of their ways with anti-government protests and a
few travel bans? We manoeuvred well then, our calculations worked, and in
the form of Donald Trump friendly relief troops arrived – fortunately not
here, but in Washington. Since then a lot of water has flowed down the
Potomac. Fortunately the White House has retained its sense of humour, and
instead of a “good friend”, President Biden has sent us a “press man”, an
ambassador to ratchet up the pressure on us and do whatever it takes to
press the Hungarians into the camp of war: to press a statement out of us
in which we commit ourselves to joining in. This is fine, humour can help
friendship survive hard times. But we should avoid the possibility that
next time they send someone called Puccini!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We see that in 2024 America will have another election, and our Republican
friends are flexing their muscles in preparation for their return. I also
expect that democracy will show its strength in Europe, that public opinion
will become increasingly pro-peace, demanding a ceasefire, peace talks,
more sanity and – if necessary – new governments. It will not be a walk in
the park, but then the smoother and more leisurely roads all lead to war.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We have no illusions, we are not naive, and neither are we the flower
children of ‘68 or dreaming pacifists. We know that the negotiations will
not be between the Ukrainians and the Russians: peace will come when the
Americans and the Russians negotiate with each other. That will inevitably
happen, but the later it happens, the higher the price we will all pay. War
enthusiasts believe that time is on the side of the Ukrainians and the
West, so the fight must go on: it will change the balance of power, there
will be victory over Russia, and victory will bring peace. The Hungarian
government, however, believes that continued fighting will not bring
victory and will not bring peace, but the deaths of hundreds of thousands
more people, a widening conflict, countries engaged in open warfare, years
of war, destruction, suffering and the threat of world war. So let us
Hungarians stand by peace, but let the Defence Minister keep his powder
dry. That is all I have to say about the war.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

If we want to fight inflation, we must start with understanding. Why is
there inflation all over Europe? Brussels has unleashed this affliction on
us, with its sanctions on energy. The disease is called sanction inflation
and the virus is the Brussels sanctions. Sanctions are the weapons in
Brussels’ war policy. They target Russia, but they hit Europe. It was not
so long ago that Brussels promised that these sanctions would bring an end
to the war. A year has passed, and the end of the war is not getting
closer, but ever more distant. They also promised that they would not
extend the sanctions to energy. But then they did. The price of natural gas
multiplied, reaching 350 euros at the end of August. That is a record,
something not seen in living memory. The situation has improved, but the
price of natural gas is still several times higher than the 20-euro level
of two years ago. Moreover, and few people know this, in Brussels the price
of gas was linked to the price of electricity. Together with the Poles we
protested, but to no avail. The rise in gas prices has therefore been
immediately accompanied by a rise in electricity prices – even when that
electricity is not produced by gas turbines, but by solar, wind, hydro,
coal or nuclear power. It is economics 101 that energy price hikes drive up
the price of all products. This is especially true if you import most of
your energy from abroad, as Hungary does. Moreover, it has turned out that
we have not deprived Russia of revenue, but have given them more money. In
2022 the profits of the world oil and gas industry increased by 70 per
cent, without the mammoth corporations concerned renewing anything or
producing more: they just pocketed the extra profit from sanctions, which
they made Europeans pay for. In 2022 the sanctions took four thousand
billion forints out of the pockets of Hungarians. Four thousand billion
forints! This is how much more money Hungarian companies, the state and
families in Hungary have spent on energy alone, because of the sanctions.
This amount could have been spent by companies on wage increases, by the
state on tax cuts or family support, and by families on buying a home or on
their children.

One just stands amidst the glass palaces of Brussels, not wanting to
believe what is going on there. We have to face reality: instead of help,
Brussels is giving us more sanctions. The Brussels bureaucracy, with
well-considered bad intentions, has not given Hungary or Poland their share
of the European Recovery Programme. In 2022, in the most difficult year, we
did not receive money that the Member States took out as a joint loan,
according to which we Hungarians will have to pay back our share. They are
looking for nits to pick out of Hungary’s rule of law, while a police van
is on permanent standby at the European Parliament building. In reality it
is the Member States that should be monitoring Brussels, not Brussels
monitoring the Member States. I hope this will be the case after the
European elections in 2024. If Brussels wants to go to war under any
circumstances, then it should go to war against inflation. It is not doing
so. But we are continuously fighting our own war on inflation. We have
already enacted two dozen or so measures to protect families and businesses.

The most important thing now, my friends, is not to see inflation as an
inescapable scourge. And even though inflation is peaking and placing a
heavy burden on families, it should not frighten us, it should not chill
us, and we should not be resigned to it. Action must be taken, and it will
yield results. I learned from Sándor Demján that in times of crisis there
is no such thing as normativity. You must intervene in the economy with
courage. This is what we are doing, which is why the average family today
is saving 181,000 forints a month in reduced utility bills. This is unique
in the whole of Europe. The Left is calling for the food price freeze to be
withdrawn, but it will remain until we can bring inflation down. The Left –
together with the banks, unsurprisingly – is also calling for the lifting
of the retail interest rate freeze. But the interest rate freeze is
protecting 350,000 families from interest rate rises, and until interest
rates start to fall, the freeze should stay in place. Instead of
withdrawing it, we have extended it to student loans. So today we are
protecting 200,000 students from inflation. Student loans are
interest-free, and the interest rate on a free-use student loan is half the
market rate. And now we are introducing a reduced-rate county travel pass.
>From 1 May, we will offer monthly nationwide and county passes valid for
both bus and rail travel. The monthly pass will cost 9,450 forints, and the
monthly nationwide pass will cost 18,900 forints. Those who travel to work
by public transport can save a considerable amount.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Forging a good shield – one that can absorb heavy blows – is expensive.
Therefore windfall profits must be taken from where they occur. We have
taxed banks, energy companies and multinational retail chains. And the
windfall profits taken are put into the fund to preserve cuts in household
utility bills.

In summary, 2022 was a year that could have broken the backbone of the
Hungarian economy. The official doomsayers, respected former central bank
governors and former right-wing economists were also expecting this, and
were already administering the last rites to us. Bankruptcies,
unemployment, currency collapse, insolvency, Armageddon: that was what the
Left predicted. Now, in February, employment is higher than ever, foreign
exchange reserves are at record levels, and the forint has stabilised. The
truth is that, alongside and in spite of painfully high inflation, in 2022
the Hungarian economy broke three records. A hat-trick. I hope coach
[Marco] Rossi is listening. Never have so many people been in work in
Hungary. Our exports have broken records, and never before has there been
so much investment in Hungary as there was in 2022. This is why we are
still on our feet despite high prices, and this is why the economy will not
stall in 2023. Inflation is like a tiger, and you only have one bullet. If
you miss, it will eat you up. Please trust us, we will hit it. You can bet
on it: by the end of the year we will have inflation in single digits.

Dear Friends,

As we can see, the situation is serious, but not hopeless – in fact it is
encouraging. Hungarians’ survival instincts are operating, they can see
things clearly, and – as the national consultation has shown – there is
broad agreement on the main objectives. Here today I thank all those who
took part in the national consultation. We will stay out of war, Hungary
will remain an island of peace and security, and we will conquer inflation
– this is always the Government’s job, and there will be no mistakes. But
there is something else that a government, however confident it may be,
will not be able to do on its own. You know, everyone has heard, what a
despicable thing happened in one of our schools. One cannot understand why
the sky does not fall, why the earth does not open up to swallow up those
whose place is under it.

Dear Friends,

Let us say it how it is: paedophilia cannot be forgiven. Children are
sacred to us, and it falls to adults to protect children at all costs. We
do not care that the world has gone mad. We do not care what repellent
aberrations some people indulge in. We do not care how Brussels excuses and
explains the inexplicable. This is Hungary! And this is where the strictest
child protection system in Europe should be! The legislation is there, and
the missing pieces will be found, but even the most determined government
cannot succeed in this matter on its own. It will require everyone:
parents, grandparents, mothers and fathers, teachers and educators. Because
gender propaganda is not just an entertaining caper, not just rainbow
chatter, but the greatest threat stalking our children. We want our
children to be left alone, because enough is enough! This kind of thing has
no place in Hungary, and especially not in our schools. I am counting on
you, we are counting on all Hungarian people of goodwill, so that we can do
this job together, once and for all, in 2023.

God above us all, Hungary before all else! Go, Hungary, go Hungarians!
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