The Prime Minister answered the opposition's questions for an hour in the Hungarian Parliament on Monday.
I would like to make it clear that the President of the Republic of Hungary is entitled to respect and good faith, so I most resolutely reject their accusations - answered Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to Olga Kálmán (DK) in the parliament. According to him, Tamás Sulyok's attack was part of the DK's election campaign, because they already got what they deserved (they will have half as many representatives in the EP as before).
– “We are not the ones to play the game of making an untrue statement and then asking if I knew about it. They used to play this in kindergarten. I wholeheartedly support the president of the republic, if he had to put forward tomorrow, I would put forward the same," he added.
Momentum, which was on the verge of extinction, asked the prime minister about the case of the constitutional lawyer suffering from an incurable disease. Bedő Dávidék wants to introduce euthanasia, considering that Dániel Karsai has been living his life in the crossfire of the media since he found out about his illness.
In his reply, the Prime Minister indicated that he always despised those people who use the suffering of others for political purposes. As he said, referendum questions that conflict with the constitution cannot be debated, and the government stands on the basis of the current constitution.
– “It represents a despicable behavior and wants to make a suffering person the subject of everyday political debates. We continue to stand on the side of life and we will not switch to the side of death, from which you asked me your question," he added.
György László Lukács (Jobbik – Conservatives) asked the prime minister about the extent to which the government is building our country's economy on battery factories.
Viktor Orbán explained: about 500,000 people work at automotive companies in Hungary, who may lose their jobs if these factories cease to exist, so development must take place in Hungary.
Regarding electromobilization, he said that it makes sense to continue the green transition, that the components produced by us are also installed in German cars, and the goal is to apply the best technologies of the West and the East in Hungary. Hungarian companies are being invited to modernize China, it is not worth refusing, the prime minister pointed out.
He stated: China has no political ambitions for Hungary. They also cooperate with Germany, and the numbers showed that the majority of the funds go to Hungarian small and medium-sized enterprises.
In addition, Viktor Orbán thanked the MP for his congratulations on Fidesz's election results. He added that their support reached a level that any Western European party would accept.
László Toroczkai (Mi Hazánk) talked about how he thought the government secretly agreed with Facebook.
Viktor Orbán pointed out that his speeches were deleted from the platform.
He emphasized that there were parties that received money from abroad, and he also indicated that classifying Fidesz with the globalists is a novelty in Brussels. The prime minister offered the faction leader that he would be happy to cooperate with him on the issue of protecting sovereignty.
The prime minister added that he agreed with the representative's use of words, that it is blood-curdling to make the thoughts of a member of parliament inaccessible, which is also a problem of democracy. - Make a proposal, we are happy to cooperate with you in this - suggested Viktor Orbán.
- We wanted to achieve change in Budapest, but we respect the result of the election, we acknowledge that the people of Budapest made a different decision - replied Viktor Orbán
to the immediate question of the conversational Tímea Szabó, who spoke about Gergely Karácsony's victory in the mayoral election, and about the fact that the government owes Budapest 31 billion forints.
The prime minister said that Budapest is bankrupt and that the government is ready to help stop it.
"Yesterday, in the EP elections, Fidesz-KDNP received 2,015,000 votes, as many as never before," underlined the prime minister. He said that Párbeszéd together with DK and MSZP wanted to replace the government, but in the end the people replaced the three left-wing parties.
Antal Csárdi (LMP) asked the Prime Minister how long Zoltán Balog can remain in his position.
- In communist times, Imre Miklós could have said what the LMP representative said, that church matters are settled by the church, not the government - stated Viktor Orbán. The prime minister asked the representative to respect the fact that the state and the church operate separately.
Csárdi then clarified his question, in fact he wants the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to revoke Zoltán Balog's diplomatic passport, and he asked the prime minister whether he would give instructions to do so.
The prime minister thanked the second question and said in response: they do not want to start making exceptions, the leaders of the historic churches have diplomatic passports, they do not want to change this practice. As he said, he has his own opinion as a reformer, that Balog can still be a bishop in the reformed church today.
- In the past period, we also tried to help the situation of parents raising children struggling with various difficulties, said Viktor Orbán,
in response to Dániel Z. Kárpát's immediate question. The Jobbik politician inquired about the travel reimbursement provided to the parents of SNI children, and would like to achieve a significant increase in this amount. Viktor Orbán indicated that he will ask the ministry responsible for the case to deal with the issue and they can reach an agreement with the representative.
– In order for us to be able to give support and money to any sick person, someone first has to earn that money. Therefore, contrasting the sums spent on job creation and investments with social support does not show deep thought, he added, after Z. Kárpát started talking about guest workers and the Hungarian workforce living in worker accommodation for the second time.
Cover image: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the plenary session of the Parliament
MTI/Szilárd Koszticsák
