Hungary’s main opposition Fidesz party is ready to form a “strong, responsible and proactive government” Fidesz leader Viktor Orban said in his traditional state of the nation address at Budapest’s Millenaris Park on Friday.
He added, however, that one had to wait until April 11 (the date of the next general elections) before “buying a ticket for the train into the future”.
What Hungary needs is strong leadership, Orban said. “The Hungarian people are now fed up with a weak government,” he said, adding that he kept receiving messages from people demanding change.
Hungary’s next government should be one trusted by the people, one that is able to address domestic issues and one that can demonstrate due determination in the international arena, Orban said. It must handle public finance with responsibility and its activities should not be associated with “crime and abuse of power”, he added.
A change is needed because the country has “deviated from the path of commonsense (…) which dictates that extremism must be rejected,” Orban said. He added that he thought extremism referred to both “those currently in power” and those that disregard laws and even resort to violence in meeting their goals.
“We must not turn a blind eye to what happened in the country during the past few years,” Orban said, but added that the next government should focus on the future rather than on retaliation.
The political elite should return to fundamental common values, such as “work, home, family, health, and order,” because “that is the way back to the people and reality,” Orban said.
Hungary needs to be reconstructed, which involves reviving the national economy, Orban said. “The Hungarian economy must be put in the service of the Hungarian people,” he added.
“The Hungarian people are now fed up with a weak government,” he said, adding that he kept receiving messages from people demanding change
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Would this not define a “strong” Government, refusing to listen to public protests?
Fidesz has run the outspoken policy to force the Government to resign and have extra elections since early Autumn 2006
It looks more like Orban is speaking about a weak opposition
It is only my personal opinion but I believe that Fidesz should have opted for a new leader.
Orban Viktor is past is sell-by date.
This is bad news for Hungary. Still, we should be used to it by now…
@choice:
Does Fidesz have any young “new faces” at all, or is it the same group of people that ran the country ca 10 years ago ?
I have the feeling that young Hungarians aren’t intereted in politics at all, only in earning enough money to survive.