Orbán: Brussels Wants To Impose Puppet Government On Hungary

By the time Hungary joined the EU in 2004, it was already obvious to any intelligent observer that the end game for it was a "puppet" government in every country.

From The European Conservative

By Zoltán Kottász

On the anniversary of the 1956 revolution when Hungarians rose up against Soviet oppression, the PM compared the current Brussels “empire” to the Soviets.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warned Hungarian citizens that there is a plot unfolding in Brussels to get rid of the current conservative government and to impose “a Brusselite puppet government on the country.”

The prime minister, who has drawn the ire of the liberal Brussels elite many times with his no-nonsense right-wing stance on issues such as sovereignty, migration and gender ideology, was speaking on Wednesday, October 23rd, on the anniversary of the 1956 revolution when Hungarians rose up against Soviet oppression.

Orbán compared the current Brussels elite to the Soviet oppressors, saying the Soviet leaders “wanted their comrades, the Hungarian communists, to provide the puppet government, which would then ask the occupying Soviet troops to stay.” Today, “independent Hungarian policy is unacceptable to Brussels. Therefore Brussels has announced that it will get rid of Hungary’s national government. They have also announced that they want to impose a Brusselite puppet government on the country.”

We know that they want to force us into war. We know that they want to force their migrants on us. We know they want to put our children in the hands of gender activists. We know that they have chosen their puppet government. They have the party they want to force upon us. They have their man for it, a real yes-man. The ideal candidate to head up a puppet government.

The prime minister was referring to Péter Magyar, the leader of the main opposition Tisza Party, who shot to fame earlier this year by publicly splitting ties with Fidesz, Orbán’s party. The Tisza Party surprisingly came second in the European Parliament elections in June, with 29.6% of the votes, finishing behind Fidesz who got 44.8%.

Tisza joined the ranks of the centrist-liberal European People’s Party (EPP), whose leader Manfred Weber has made his intentions of wanting to get rid of Fidesz publicly known. European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen also implied during her speech in Strasbourg a few weeks ago, in which she addressed Hungarian voters, that none of them had voted for Orbán, or if they had, they shouldn’t continue doing so.

The fact remains, however, that Fidesz has won four landslide national elections in a row, and Orbán has made it clear that it is the Hungarians who should decide who governs them, not Brussels. In an interview, he said the preference of the Eurocrats is “a pro-Brussels government, not a national-sovereigntist one.” A pro-Brussels government would have to follow the Brussels line on supporting Ukraine militarily, supporting Brussels’ migration policy, abolishing the Hungarian family protection and child protection laws, as well as supporting a cold war on trade and economy.

In his speech on Wednesday, Orbán accused the Hungarian opposition of “offering its services to the empire.”

It is a national tradition of the Right to defend the family, to defend the homeland. It is an internationalist tradition to betray the homeland and betray the family. Old opposition, new opposition: all that changes are the labels. This new one does what the old one did. It calls on foreigners to help it against the Hungarians—in 1956 it called on Moscow’s leaders, today it calls on Brussels’ leaders. The new leader of the opposition is sitting at their table, next to Manfred Weber. This is not a conspiracy theory, it is a conspiracy in practice, in front of the country and the world.

The prime minister also chided the European leaders, the Brussels bureaucrats, for “leading the West into a hopeless war.” Despite the war in Ukraine claiming hundreds of thousands of fatalities, and the European economy and businesses suffering as a consequence, “they want to openly drag the entire European Union into the war in Ukraine.” Referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s “victory plan” Orbán said:

The new victory plan has been made public. The victory plan is to extend the war. The plan is to invite Ukraine into NATO immediately. The theatre of war will be moved to Russian soil. Part of the plan is that, having won on the Eastern Front, Ukraine will undertake to replace the Americans and guarantee the security of the whole of Europe with its own reinforced army. In other words, we Hungarians would wake up one morning to once again find Slavic soldiers from the East stationed on Hungarian territory. We do not want that!

The prime minister said that while his political opponents want to go to war, Hungarians do not want to take part in other people’s wars. “We want only one thing: to live in peace here in the Carpathian Basin, according to our own rules, and in pursuit of our own prosperity.”