Challenger Péter Magyar on Orbán speech: the prime minister executes their proposals
Opposition parties reacted to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speech assessing the state of the nation over the past year on Saturday.
Péter Magyar, the leader of the Tisza Party, said Orbán had touched “on no subject relevant to the everyday life of the people … and offered no solution to the cost-of-living crisis.” Magyar said the speech had shown that Orbán was “terrified … trying to cling on by accepting the Tisza Party’s proposals.”
Klára Dobrev, an MEP of the leftist Democratic Coalition, said the measures announced by the prime minister would be “ineffective in reversing the trend of continuous decline”. “Orbán is offering the harsh reality of Russian everyday life,” she said in a statement. Dobrev said that “by assisting [US President Donald] Trump in the most horrific historical, political and human sin of the past 70 years”, Orbán was “putting not just his own honour, but also that of the entire country, on the line”.
László Toroczkai of the Our Homeland party said “Orbán fails to see the difficulties caused by bad legislation and suffocating bureaucracy, and the real reasons of corruption, the crumbling law enforcement and health care, emptying villages, the problems of the railway system, wages, inflation, education and the cost of living.” Orbán had announced “big handouts”, Toroczkai said, adding that “this will have a serious blowback after 2026, because the government refuses to introduce the economic turnabout” necessary to finance it.
Jobbik said the speech contained “a tsunami of promises that won’t solve the problems caused by the recent years’ governance”. The biggest losers of the speech, the statement said, were “health care and our EU funding”. The statement said the speech had provided “no answers to the issues of the closure of hospital wards … or the EU monies that all Hungarians are entitled to but seem to be lost through the fault of the government.”
Orbán attacking Pride
Socialist Party leader Imre Komjáthi said the speech had been “an exercise in rhetoric trying to divert attention from the utter failure of the government with conspiracy theories”. The “real enemy”, the statement said, was systemic societal inequality, exploitation and economic injustice. “Orbán’s statements prove that he has lost touch with reality but continues to deepen the rift between various parts of society.”
The Momentum Movement said: “Inflation is sky high, the state is imploding, there are no EU monies, but Orbán is attacking the last island of freedom, Pride. This is base incitement, nothing more,” that statement said.
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