Politics cannot be built on a foundation composed of lies, main opposition Fidesz party leader Viktor Orban said in Bonn on Wednesday, addressing a roundtable focussing on the experience of the year 1989 during a European People’s Party congress.
Orban said the main source of corruption is the practice of building economic and other policies on lies.
“As long as lies are not eliminated, there will be no effective actions against corruption,” he told Hungarian reporters.
On the occasion of the International Anti-Corruption Day, Orban said that corruption in Hungary should be uprooted and those involved in murky affairs called to account.
Orban said that some European societies are dominated by “organised lies”, calling Hungary the best example for this.
“Policy-makers are shamelessly lying in each fiscal year, particularly in pre-election years. They are drafting fictitious budgets and deceiving the public,” he said.
It is sorrowful, Orban said, that sometimes they find partners in Western Europe and in some international organisations which, starting from their own interests, “willingly contribute to maintaining the lies of Hungary’s current government,” he said.
Hungarian Parliament adopted the 2010 central budget law on December 1. Fidesz criticised the budget, saying that it would fail to boost the recession-hit economy, and that its deficit target – 3.8 percent of gross domestic product – would overshoot, mainly due to one-off spending items not included in it.
How did Mr Orban fare in his fight in corruption
during his years in government? (I am being
sarcastic but really it’s a serious question)
@Benny a manó: He didn’t try. He was involved in giving companies partly owed by his wife exorbitant state grants (wine making), lots of friends has ridiculous handout for shitty marketing, film making etc… (Happy Kft), he tried to stop or force existing road construction contracts so he could renegotiate them (to get the bakshish), and spent enormous amounts creating the right wing press (through paid adverts etc…). He unconstitutionally banned the taking of minutes during cabinet meetings, so no-one will ever know what he really got up to, but no-one seems inclined to find out. It’s the standard MSZP-Fidesz ping-pong match. The main thing is to keep the tombola in motion, so that people live in hope that one day it’ll be their turn to win.
Marvelous stuff being posted on this site these days. Interesting and accurate! What more can you ask for?
Vándorló,along with Erik, you are both realizing your potential in defining and describing the real problems in Hungary today.
The tombola/bingo jackpot will never be won whilst the same firm are running the show.
We all know that the MSZP and Fidesz are different shades of communist red.
As Erik once pointed out with the analogy of the Model T Ford and Henry Ford’s quip: “you can have any color you want as long as it is black.”
“Orban said that some European societies are dominated by “organised lies”, calling Hungary the best example for this”
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Any one knows which are the other ones on his list?
Could lead to nice inter-European frictions if he would make public his ‘name-and-shame’-list.
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Otherwise there are wonderful quotes to be remembered, like:
“Policy-makers are shamelessly lying in each fiscal year, particularly in pre-election years. They are drafting fictitious budgets and deceiving the public”
Only future will tell if we need to repeat that the next 4 years…