On May 10, I found the eight-page political advertisement entitled "This is the point" in the mailbox, and the next day the twelve-page "European Hungarians" published by DK (second year, issue 4).
Unfortunately, the election campaign went live very early, and this verbal civil war will be difficult to endure for nearly a year. But I pulled myself together and made a masochistic decision. In the future, I will read every opposition ad dropped in my mailbox and save them until the election.
Regarding the quality of the first publication, the fact that in one picture Viktor Orbán is sitting on the corner of a coffin painted in national colors. Ugly composition! The text: "Hungary has the highest number of deaths from the corona virus in the world in proportion to the population." The Orbán government really made a mistake by classifying all deaths - including, for example, stomach cancer - as deaths caused by the corona virus, in which the corona virus could be detected. His excuse is that the national side is unable to foresee that the opposition is able to manufacture a political weapon out of anything, because it has no moral inhibitions. If we follow the example of Slovakia, then the opposition would not be able to earn a lump on the poop. In Slovakia, only those coronavirus deaths were included in the statistics, in which the other deaths were due to lung disease. Among the mortality statistics, only those that compare the mortality data during the epidemic with the data of previous years are professionally based. The excess deaths due to Covid or other causes must be shared.
The DK publication is noteworthy because it is a fine example of the turbocharged Goebbelian propaganda, which, in the awareness of a significant part of the electorate, is able to ignore the communication defeat of the opposition, and is even able to place the responsibility for the high death rate on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's neck. It is typical of the moral level of the DK that there is also a distorted picture of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in this paper that violates human dignity. Opposite Klára Dobrev in her youth.
The report made with Klára Dobrev is very instructive. Ms. Klára's findings are seriously flawed because she is officially the DK Prime Minister's candidate. The question must be asked: Does Hungary deserve such a lying prime minister? A few quotes from him: "..this government is leading Hungary into a historical impasse. How we are moving away from Europe..." Like her husband, she does not reveal the whole truth: what kind of Europe are we moving away from? From Europe that imposes federalist, anti-family, gender ideology and restricts freedom of speech. When we entered, the watchword was subsidiarity, the principle that, if possible, all decisions should be made at the level closest to the citizens. Where does that leave us today?
More quotes. "... the Hungarian state administration practically does not work in an acute situation... FIDESZ cannot govern... the Hungarian state must be rebuilt from scratch". Ferenc Gyurcsány , the wife of the former prime minister, who took out a 20 billion euro loan to avoid Hungary's insolvency and state bankruptcy, says this Her husband took out a loan of 2,000 euros for each citizen! And the Orbán government cleverly scheduled the repayment deadline for four years, thereby undermining its operation. "...the country is incapable of mass testing, mass vaccination, patient care, job protection, crisis management, practically anything." Say this when the vaccination rate in Hungary was 44% on May 11, while the EU average was only 29%. The economic decline in Hungary in 2020 was 5.1%, compared to the EU average of 6.4%. And the unemployment rate was 4% at the beginning of March 2021, only half a percent higher than the value in September 2019. Does Ms. Klára, who is proud of her degree as a financial lawyer, know these indicators? Then what kind of prime minister will he be?
Finally, a quote from the pathetic fervor: "There is a nation where we don't have to go to the hospital with stomach cramps... where the question at the end of the month is not whether the last forints of the pension should be spent on medicine or shopping." Say this to Ferenc Gyurcsány, whose husband accumulated a terrible debt in the health sector, which had to be consolidated by the first Orbán government, and who took away the pensioners' 13th monthly pension. And now an unprecedented wage increase is taking place in the health sector.
"There is a nation where lies are not poured upon us." That the sky doesn't fall! On May 26, 2006, her husband, Ferenc Gyurcsány , admitted in private that he won the post of prime minister in the spring with lies: "We obviously lied for the last one and a half to two years. It was very clear that what we were saying was not true. We are so much beyond the country's possibilities that we could not even imagine it before. (…) And meanwhile we didn't do anything for four years anyway. Nothing! You can't name any significant government measures from the last four years that we can be proud of, other than the fact that we brought the government back from the shit in the end. If we have to account to the country for what we did in four years, then what do we say?" According to Ms. Klára's value judgment, this was a speech of the truth, of which she is very proud!
This closed mob talk caused a national outrage. On October 23, I went to Astoria to commemorate FIDESZ. Hearing the noise from Deák tér, I walked to Madách tér. Luckily, I was standing on the sidewalk, in front of the big brick houses, when a police cavalry unit similar to Mátyás Hunyadi's black army charged into the peaceful crowd with drawn swords. The alarmed crowd moved towards the Astoria and the synagogue, and then the wind of panic touched them. Here and there the cry was heard to slow down, because whoever falls will be trampled to death. As we rushed towards the synagogue on the narrowing street, tear gas grenades fell in front of us. In the end, I luckily made it to the Ring Road, and the next day I found out what kind of manhunt was going on in the streets. For me, liars and immoral people like Ferenc Gyurcsány and his wife should not talk about democracy, and none of them should apply for high public law positions, because they are unworthy of it!
Csaba Molnár's worth a few sentences . The title of the article: Orbán said no to the EU vaccine. Quote from the article: "At the end of February, the government failed because they ordered much less Moderna vaccine than the Hungarians would have had...the government has already said that this vaccine is too expensive...I rarely say this, but this is really treason," says Molnár Csaba. According to the executive vice president of the DK, the Orbáns did not consciously order the vaccine." This is a perfect example of how to lie while telling the truth. Because Molnár kept quiet about the fact that the government canceled the delivery for the fourth quarter of 2021.
László Varju , vice president of DK. "...the government is not responsible for the lost jobs, the crisis and the economic downturn, but the virus." What a capital lie! If this is so, then the rest of the world will be ensnared by Orbán agents.
Finally, four quotes from the booklet. "Vaccination chaos. Many elderly people are still waiting to be vaccinated. Even though the EU vaccines are in the warehouses, the Orbáns are unable to distribute them." Meanwhile, after the exempted Malta, Hungary towers high in the EU vaccination order. This is also a professional-level lie embedded in the truth, because those who have not registered are really not vaccinated. But it is not the government, but mainly the opposition campaigning against Eastern vaccines that can do this! In the warehouses, there are vaccines that are being inspected or are being reserved for the second vaccination. The title of the other article: The number of EU vaccines will be slower than those registered for vaccination. Quote: "...by the second quarter, the delivery of EU vaccines to the member states really accelerated significantly...Therefore, it was a shame to base the government's communication on the fact that there are not enough vaccines because of the EU." That's right, Hungary gained at least a month and a half advantage over the EU countries in terms of vaccinations by using Eastern vaccines, which is a huge success in terms of lives and money! Apart from the Hungarian opposition, the responsibility of the Union is no longer contested by the member states, and even the health commissioner who ordered the vaccines is being accused of serious corruption. The third blood-curdling and insulting quote for healthcare workers: "...in hospitals, you had to choose which of two patients will be put on a ventilator and whose fate will be certain death." This defamation cries out for legal remedy! We have already seen this in Western countries, but not in Hungary. This is nothing but the discrediting of healthcare workers, while in Budapest, "The DK city leaders thanked the healthcare workers in an unusual way, with a bunch of flags." This is the real backup!
Dániel Nagy is the editor in charge of the dirty paper "European Magyars" , who has not been taken away in a big black car by the vigilant guards of the Orbán dictatorship. Despite this, the NGOs will describe in their report that there is no freedom of speech and press in Hungary. We have more of these two democratic rights than in the West, and unfortunately there is also the freedom to lie! The opposition ignores Ferenc Deák's striking statement: "If it were up to me, the press law would only have one paragraph: you must not lie." The arsenal of the opposition: silence the positive facts, magnify the negatives, wrap them in half-truths, incite unabashed lies and hatred. The cited flyers "inform" voters in this spirit. At the same time, FIDESZ should continuously neutralize propaganda publications full of this type of lies!
Pál Bartha
(Cover photo: Ferenc Isza/AFP)