Fidesz faction leader Máté Kocsis gave an interview to the Mandiner weekly. We share a few thoughts from the conversation - prepared by Dániel Kacsoh and Laura Szalai.
Does Fidesz need permission to participate in Pride?
It shouldn't be if someone wants to participate, but there is no such person in the faction. Don't get me wrong, this event is not about standing up for sexual freedom or possibly accepting deviance, but rather a rough provocation. The lmbtq movement does not protect the minority, it attacks the majority. Defamation of Christians, mocking of the Hungarian national identity, incitement of hatred, professional insults of government politicians, if they feel like it, "slandering" them, and extreme liberal propaganda hiding behind some kind of supposed freedom.
In Brussels and in the Western, but also in the domestic opposition press, the law is called the "homophobic law".
In liberal circles, they are very good at naming, reinterpreting and stigmatizing. It is a simple lie to call the child protection and anti-pedophile law that . The attack in Brussels is obviously political, it would be quite shocking if it were substantive. And if it is, and the protection of children comes under such pressure, then there is a bigger problem in Brussels than we thought. The legislative package strengthens the prerogatives of parents regarding the upbringing of their children, but it does not mention adults. In Hungary, everyone lives their private life as they wish, any other interpretation is false.
Will the law continue?
It will be. There is still a lot to be done in the field of child protection, and the debate on chemical neutralization is not yet closed in relation to pedophiles. In connection with the recently adopted legislation, the implementing regulations will be prepared in the summer, and they will specify the smallest details. That is why those who already claim, for example, that it will not be possible to teach Shakespeare or Sappho in schools, are talking nonsense.
Pegasus case. According to the government, there is also hysteria and a fake scandal, the opposition demands an investigation.
If there really is nothing to see in the case, why can't it go before the National Security Committee? Because in that committee, it doesn't hurt if there is a basis for an assertion. There is no illegal eavesdropping by state bodies in Hungary, the liberal propaganda press has driven left-wing politicians to the wall. Although I understand that such a case would have been successful, it's just that their imaginations are too vivid. Or they've been watching too many spy shooters. The espionage system they imagine, that is, the use of mass surveillance and gigantic information gathering systems, is not the playground of small countries, but of the great powers – France, Germany, Great Britain, the United States, Israel. That's where the debate comes from. Hungary does not play football on this field.
According to press reports, for example, the phones of a 444 journalist and opposition politicians were tapped with the Israeli software.
This fantasizing has about as much basis as putting chips in people with vaccinations. These are fever dreams, which is also evident from the fact that after the strong start, they quickly switched to using the conditional mode in the Ballib press as well. Now they are just struggling to maintain the topic anyway. Their invention is qualified bullshit, because even if it were, an eavesdropper would have no idea about it. Childish heroism and martyrdom, which has no logical point. I note here that the last time opposition politicians were monitored was during the Gyurcsány government. Secret services collaborated with the underworld to collect data on right-wing politicians between 2006 and 2009. Szilvásy, Laborc, Portik, if you still remember.
the full interview here .
Opening image: magyarnemzet.hu
Photo: Árpád Földházi
