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"Mr President, I for one am happy that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is here today. Europe is about dialogue, and this is an opportunity for dialogue, even if Mr Orbán stated that he will only bow to power, and not to arguments. I do hope that he will still listen to arguments as well.
Communications at home are quite contradictory: on one hand, the Government asserts that only minor technical adjustments are necessary, and on the other hand, it claims that it is the lies of an international left-wing conspiracy against which it is up to the Prime Minister to defend Hungary. Hungary, however, does not need to be defended against this criticism, because it is not addressed at Hungary, but at you and your politics, which alienate our partners, isolate the country and worsen Hungary’s possibilities to assert its interests, thereby boosting the premium on our debt and weakening the forint.
Hungary acceded to the European Union voluntarily and not because it bowed before its power. It agreed with the EU’s values and with democracy. Democracy, social harmony, and a balanced framework for diversity, the peaceful resolution of naturally occurring conflicts and social unity – these are the things it wished for. This is exactly what is wrong with the basic law: it undermines the independence of the institutions that guarantee the peaceful resolution of social conflicts, and it is therefore not a minor mistake but an attempt on democracy to prematurely abolish the office of data protection ombudsman, to remove the impartial and critical President of the Supreme Court from office, and also to restrict the powers of the Constitutional Court, to stigmatise and criminalise the poor, and to exercise government control over the public media. Without democratic checks and balances we are at the risk of a social eruption.
Prime Minister, you may have a two-thirds majority in the Hungarian Parliament, but today 84% of people surveyed are of the opinion that things are awry in the country. Today’s debate is also a test of the independence of the public media in Hungary. Will they deliver a balanced report on this debate? I therefore ask Parliament’s media services to monitor the presentation of today’s debate in the Hungarian public media and to compare it with international media reactions."@en1
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