Brussels, 27 June 2024
The following remarks were recorded during Viktor Orbán’s doorstep at the European Council. The transcription was done by Word, the translation by ChatGPT.
Answer to the question on the leading candidate for EU tops jobs:
VIKTOR ORBÁN: The agreement, which must be classified as disgraceful, was established on a party basis, not on programs, not on past performance, not on future plans but rather a sharing of power has been realized, carried out by 3 parties: the People’s Party, the Socialists, and the Liberals, which is an audacity against the European voters, who mostly voted right-wing.
And they would have liked to see a right-wing European leadership, but the People’s Party gathered some of the right-wing votes, then took them to the left, thus deceiving the European voters. This newly formed coalition is a coalition of lies and deception, which neither takes into account the poor performance of the past 5 years nor speaks about programs for the next term, but only about sharing power, so that is the situation, we have no reason to support this abuse of power. We cannot support this.
Especially, we cannot support the President of the Commission because she used and continues to use the tool of the rule of law, which is an important European value, on a party and political basis against Hungary. When there was a change of government in Poland, which they always quietly handled here using the tools of the rule of law, they made a bunch of changes, which are at least questionable.
The commission did not utter a word, when in a letter I asked about what the new Polish government had done in Poland, is it free for us, Hungarians, to do the same yet they did not even dignify it with a response. Thus, such a chair of the Commission cannot remain in her position, in our view, and therefore we cannot support it.”
Source – European Council