“We do not want a new dictation after the communist bureaucracy, this time from Brussels,” said Orbán, whom Reuters described as a nationalist who, after more than a decade of clear victories, faces a close struggle.
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“We will not give up the right to defend our borders, to stop migration. We insist that marriage in Hungary is a union between a man and a woman, the father is a man and the mother is a woman,” said Orbán, 58, who styles the role of defender of Hungarian cultural identity before migration. Muslims to Europe and defenders of Christian values from Western liberalism.
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“We do not want to leave the EU at all, they will not get rid of us so easily,” he said. “We want to maintain our sovereignty and we do not want to find ourselves in the United States instead of integration,” he said.
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Next year, probably in April, Hungary will face parliamentary elections in which Fidesz will face a united opposition and Orbán will challenge a moderately conservative politician and economist, Péter Márki-Zay, who was elected last month by opposition primaries.
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Márki-Zay’s candidacy could be a major challenge for Orban in the parliamentary elections. The conservative mayor has seven children and does not hide his Christian faith. According to observers, this image could make it more difficult to denigrate it and could also appeal to many undecided voters in the countryside and in the metropolis.
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