Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban offered himself a new polemic on Saturday by defending his vision of an “unmixed Hungarian race” during a summer speech by Baile Tusnad, in Romanian Transylvania, where a large hungarian community.
“We move, we work in other places, we mix within Europe,” he said. “But we don’t want to be a mestizo,” a “multi-ethnic” people who would mix with “non-Europeans,” she said in particular.
Viktor Orban made several references to the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, a “maneuver” used according to him by the “internationalist left” to “say that the European population is already” a mixed race “.
political reactions
Words that immediately aroused the wrath of the opposition. Katalin Cesh, elected from the centrist Momentum Movement, addressed all non-white people in Hungary on Twitter: “Your skin color may be different, you may be from Europe or somewhere else, but you are from our people, and we are proud Diversity strengthens the nation, not weakens it.
Roman MEP Alin Mituța also protested on Twitter, saying “talking about racial or ethnic ‘purity’ in a region like Central or Eastern Europe is delusional and dangerous. Just like M. Orban.”
Accustomed to controversial exits
This is not the first departure of this kind by the 59-year-old nationalist and ultra-conservative leader, in power since 2010, who has transformed his country by implementing “illiberal” reforms, based on the “defense of a Christian Europe.” .
In particular, he attacked migrants from Africa and the Middle East and the NGOs that came to their aid, tightening the right of asylum and erecting barriers at the borders. This has earned Hungary several convictions by the EU Court of Justice.
“A necessary new strategy” on the war in Ukraine
During the same speech, Viktor Orban called for negotiations between Washington and Moscow to end the war in Ukraine, again criticizing the ineffective sanctions and the European Union’s strategy.
“We are sitting in a car with all four flat tires,” he said of the conflict, judging that “it would never have broken out if Donald Trump was still in charge of the United States and Angela Merkel was German Chancellor.”
The sanctions, with their devastating economic impact, “will not change the situation” and “the Ukrainians will not emerge victorious,” he estimated. The same goes for deliveries of military equipment: “the more powerful weapons the West sends, the longer the war drags on.”
“A new strategy is needed, which should focus on peace negotiations instead of trying to win the war,” the official added. The EU, he insisted, “must not side with the Ukrainians, but position itself” between the two camps.
Source: BFM TV
