The CPAC Hungary conference will be held on May 19 and 20 in Budapest. The main speaker of the event will be Viktor Orbán.
CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference), in Hungarian: Konzeratív Politikai Akció Conference, is the largest and most influential right-wing event in the world.
CPAC started in 1974 and "today has grown into a conference that hundreds of conservative organizations, thousands of activists, the world's most talented leaders, and millions of viewers can rightly feel like their own."
According to CPAC's official website: the Conservative Political Action Conference.
"It is the third most important political and media event in the United States after the presidential address and the White House gala dinner, which proves that CPAC can direct the media's special attention to itself for days. Every year, it brings together more than 18,000 people of all ages, including representatives of conservative organizations and educational institutions, elected politicians, media personalities, opinion leaders and activists who dare and can act for conservative causes in the United States and around the world."
CPAC is a barometer of the conservative movement. The American Conservative Union, which hosted the conference, played a significant role in the transformation of the right-wing political coalition after the Watergate scandal.
In 1974, Ronald Reagan , Governor of California, gave the conference's first keynote address. The "New Right," formed in part at CPAC, later took control of the Republican Party and helped elect Reagan to the presidency, ushering in an era of passionate conservatism.
former Vice President Mike Pence Matthew Schlapp , president of the American Conservative Union, Mike Pompeo and Kellyanne Conway , who was Trump's adviser and campaign manager in the 2016 election campaign, have already participated in the event
For the first time in Europe, the CPAC conference will be held in Budapest on May 19 and 20.
Miklós Szánthó , director of the Center for Fundamental Rights, said in an interview with 888.hu that it was extremely important for the ACU that
"the country where the first European CPAC is organized should be able to show results either in relation to family policy or border protection, which can inspire the right-wing camp in any part of the world".
The director added:
In addition, it was also important that the leadership of the country hosting the event governs on the basis of conservative, specifically illiberal principles and practices, which are also endorsed by the ACU. It is clear that no European country meets these requirements better than Hungary, in fact, it can be said that our country is the engine of the conservative renaissance."
The motto of the event is the triple unity of God, home and family, so our primary goal is to show:
the conservatives know, want and dare to fight for everything that is dear to them and that is now threatened by comprehensive exploitation", said Miklós Szánthó.
According to the director of the Center for Fundamental Rights, "no matter how incredible this would have been even a few years ago, Hungary has now become an important American topic".
It is no exaggeration to say that the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán - the keynote speaker of CPAC Hungary - is European, but he has slowly become a determining factor in the entire transatlantic sphere of influence, Hungary is the voice of sanity in geopolitical decision-making, which is now increasingly driven by emotion." - said the director.
Source: 888.hu
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