Today, international political debates are fought by the liberal mainstream as little as possible on the basis of facts, quite simply a global fake news attack has been launched against Hungary - the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade responded to the criticism of the law on pedophile offenders in Kossuth radio's Sunday newspaper program.
Péter Szijjártó put it this way: "everything they say is a lie, everything they say has nothing to do with the law we adopted to protect children".
The law on the protection of Hungarian children states, he added, that on the one hand, children must be protected from pedophiles, and on the other hand, parents have the exclusive right to educate children about their sexual orientation.
He stated: what the liberal mainstream claims about this law, that it would discriminate against certain social groups, is a lie.
In the context of the fact that the German-Hungarian European Championship football match and the EU summit were partly about this, he said that it has been clear for years: the liberal mainstream is unable to accept that in Hungary, which operates on the basis of the authority of the Hungarian people and puts the national interest first there is a patriotic government that "is successful despite going against the liberal mainstream".
He added: they won three consecutive parliamentary elections, Hungary achieved one of the fastest economic growth rates in Europe before the pandemic, and in terms of responses to the pandemic, it "proved to be the most successful in Europe, both from an economic and health perspective."
According to Péter Szijjártó, "they cannot bear this, they immediately bind themselves to all our existing laws", even when the legislation is not even available in Hungarian, thereby exposing themselves, "the attacks are clearly politically based and clearly based on lies".
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade called it an unprecedented incident that Amnesty International projected rainbow lights on the building of the Hungarian embassy in The Hague for an hour at dawn on Friday, as he said, "with the assistance and even support of the local authorities."
According to his assessment, this goes completely against international law and diplomatic practice. The host country must protect the embassies of each country against all insults, he emphasized, adding that even though they asked the Dutch authorities to prevent what happened, they did not do so.
In connection with the Child Protection Act, he said: "I ask that NGOs, funded by who knows who, who knows what organizations educate my child about his sexual orientation." He added: educating his children about their sexual orientation is his job, the parent's job, and even his responsibility and exclusive right. The law stipulates this.
According to Péter Szijjártó, it has happened many times that Hungary has created legislation in line with the rules of the European Union, but it was still attacked for that.
He touched on what "they did before the German-Hungarian football match, while everyone knows that in history it always went very badly when political matters and ideological debates were mixed with sports."
He put it like this: it was unbelievable that something like this could happen in the 21st century, before a European football match, "they created such an unscrupulous and disgusting political scandal and fans from another European country, Hungary, were constantly provoked within Europe, while the ideological propaganda was going on".
In the program, the minister also spoke about the operative group responsible for restarting economic life. He said: the first proposals were already submitted to the government this week, and they were accepted by the cabinet. The value limit for investments related to research and development has been reduced from 3 million euros to 1 million, support can already be requested for 10 new research and development jobs, the minister listed.
He added that the more flexible legislation necessary for export development was ensured for the Eximbank, thus new avenues for the development of Hungarian exports were opened, and a support system for the foreign investments of Hungarian companies was also created, and the rules related to employment were also eased in order to create even more jobs. .
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