After a two-year hiatus, the 31st Tusvány Festival will be held again this year, between July 19 and 24. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is also returning to the free university, which has existed since 1989, and who usually gives keynote speeches at the Transylvanian camp. In addition to the prime minister, the biggest domestic orchestras will also give a concert to the participants from across the border and from the motherland who are visiting there.
Something is eternal - this will be the motto of this year's Tusványos, which will be held again at the Tusnádfürdő in Transylvania after a two-year hiatus. some program points are already available on the website of the free university , also identified as a festival, and Zsolt Németh, the chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the parliament, a few days ago to atv.hu that the main political speaker this year Viktor Orbán , Prime Minister of Hungary.
The Prime Minister gave a speech at the free university for the first time in 1998, which has been held every year since 1989 (except for 2020 and 2021). For the first time, as the newly elected prime minister, Viktor Orbán spoke about the importance of Hungary's NATO membership, and in later years his speeches here often became political programming speeches.
In 2014, he spoke here for the first time about illiberal democracy, and in 2016 (as the world's first sitting political leader) he stood up for US presidential candidate Donald Trump, who later became the 45th president of the United States.
On the last occasion, in 2019, Viktor Orbán spoke about the fact that the Hungarian nation has the capabilities to defend itself, that it is on an encouraging path, and that its further development is threatened not from within, but from without.
At this year's free university, it is believed that the prime minister will for the first time analyze the Russian-Ukrainian war and the possibilities of managing the wartime inflation associated with the conflict.
The Prime Minister is expected to give a speech on the morning of the penultimate day of the camp, July 23.
The last time the 30th camp was held was in 2019, but due to the coronavirus epidemic, the 2020 and 2021 camps in Tusnádfürdő were canceled. "But an event like Tusványos must continue," said Zsolt Németh the other day.
The politician, who is also the co-president of the Tusványosi Senate, said about this year's motto; "reflects that there are eternal values in human life, and politics must follow them" . - On the other hand, there are also institutions that are long-lived, Tusványos can now be considered a kind of system-changing institution - he declared. "We hope that it will be very long-lived, if not eternal," said Zsolt Németh.
The full article of Magyar Nemzet can be read here.
Author: Márk Kreft-Horváth
Image: Szilárd Koszticsák (archive)
