The Prime Minister has asked voters in Hungary’s general election on 8 April to not only think of the present, but also of the future, because they will not only be deciding on a government and a parliament, but Hungary will also be choosing a future for itself.
On Thursday evening Bertalan Havasi, Head of the Prime Minister's Press Office, said that Viktor Orbán had written to Hunor Kelemen, President of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ), congratulating him on the fact that the Minority SafePack European Citizens’ Initiative had collected the one million signatures required for it to be submitted to the EU.
On Tuesday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave an address at the official inauguration of a new facility for PVC product manufacturer and distributor Ongropack Ltd. in the village of Szirmabesenyő in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. The prime minister said that “If the country comes to the wrong decision in the general election on 8 April and immigration policy turns in a Western European direction, the development of the Hungarian economy will come to a halt”.
On Monday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave an exclusive interview to the television channel Pannon RTV in Szabadka/ Subotica. In it he stressed the protection of three things: Hungary’s achievements over the past eight years; the greatness, achievements and future of thinking within a national context; and Christian traditions, so that Hungary can remain a Hungarian country.
In the city of Subotica/ Szabadka in Serbia on Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the minority protection model which Serbia has implemented can serve as an example for the whole of Europe.
In the city of Subotica/ Szabadka on Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that it is “our moral duty to stand up for a Hungary and a Europe in which Jews and Christians can live and practise their religions without fear”.
On the Kossuth Radio programme “Sunday News”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the main issue at stake in Hungary’s parliamentary election on 8 April is whether Hungary will become an immigrant state, or if it will manage to preserve its security, European culture and way of life.
In a video posted on his Facebook page on Friday morning, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that discussion of the mandatory migrant quota issue at the current EU summit had been postponed, and so Hungary has won time.
After a meeting with the prime ministers of the Visegrád Four in Brussels on Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave a statement about people’s personal Facebook data being used without their consent. He described such use of Facebook’s database for commercial – and particularly for political campaign – purposes as unacceptable.
After a meeting of the leadership of the European People’s Party in Brussels on Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “Europe is full”.