Former PM Gyurcsány: Fight tyrants, not negotiate with them!
Ferenc Gyurcsány, the head of the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK), urged people to “dare to fight” for their freedom at a party gathering to mark the 175th anniversary of the 1848-49 revolution and freedom fight in Budapest on Wednesday.
Gyurcsány warned that otherwise people would “be disenfranchised and become the shame of the nation”. He said DK would become “the home” for those opposed to governing Fidesz.
“DK follows a sensible, patriotic European policy with principles that are simple: people are free and must watch out for that freedom. Furthermore, the strong may not abuse their power, while the weak must be helped, because they’re people too,” he said.
Gyurcsány said people must “fight tyrants, not negotiate with them”. “The Dobrev government is the solution”, he added.
Finance minister: ‘If there is peace, there is freedom’
“Peace is needed again today in order to stay out of the war, and if there is peace, there is freedom,” Finance Minister Mihály Varga said, marking the 175th anniversary of the 1848-49 revolution and freedom fight, in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár), in north-western Romania, on Wednesday.
Varga said the revolution of 1848 marked the birth of institutional Hungarian freedom. He said the sacrifices of the heroes of the revolution could be reciprocated by strengthening and guaranteeing the nation’s independence and self-determination for future generations.
“When we celebrate 1848, we Hungarians also celebrate a diverse Europe founded on autonomous nation-states,” the minister said. “We must defend our freedom ourselves, just as we had to in 1848 and after the two world wars, and as we must do so today on new fronts.”
Source: MTI