BERLIN – At the end in the evening this Wednesday had to express and move Viktor Orbán in person, the charismatic Hungarian premier who, defeated Trump, appears to be the most skilled sovereign strategist in the West: “József Szájer he has committed acts that are unacceptable and incompatible with the values of our party, ”he said in a brief statement released by his spokesmen and reported by the agencies. He had to move to parry the image blow of the LGBTQ party-loving MEP in contrast with the harsh homophobic politics of the government majority, because censorship and media control have not worked. The Hungarian public opinion was widely informed of the orgy-scandal but only by the few independent media: Internet sites opposed by authorities and oligarchs and advertising distribution agencies, such as Telex.hu, 444.hu e 24.hu, and above all from the Hungarian channel of the German private TV Rtl, owned by the leading global publishing group Bertelsmann, and by Glance, Springer-controlled popular newspaper, German editorial maxim.
The official Hungarian news agency Tree (Magyar Távirati Iróda), public radio and TV and the pro-government media or media controlled by oligarchs who support the premier, kept silent about the orgy and only gave the news that Szájer had declared to resign, with effect from 1 January, for having violated the Belgian lockdown. In the next few hours, the pro-European opposition is expected to pose clear questions to the majority.
Meanwhile, since the independent sites and RTL have disclosed the facts, the police have erected a cordon-barrier of isolation that keeps anyone 50 meters away from the building-castle that Orbán has built and where he lives and governs. a very authoritative source, Károly Vörös, the newspaper’s last editor, says on the phone People’s freedom, which after 1989 became the leading liberal newspaper owned by the Swiss editorial Ringier from an organ of the Gorbachevian CP. The government destroyed the People’s freedom first by reducing the advertising distributed to him to a minimum, then by having it bought by oligarchs who immediately closed it.
The Foreign Minister is embarrassed Peter’s Belt Drive, head of confidential information for the executive, admitted speaking to an independent media that he only learned about the Szájer case (which occurred on Friday) by reading the media this morning on Wednesday. Meetings between Orbán and his top collaborators would be underway. It is a blow to the most charismatic leader and head of the sovereign executive as he and his followers celebrate his record as the longest-in-power Hungarian premier in modern history: 14 years and 145 days, adding up his first government (1998-2002). ) and the return to power in April 2010, until today.
Here are the statements made hot this morning to questions from independent media by three senior members of Fidesz and the executive. Zsólt Semjén, highly influential in the parliamentary group, said in reply to Telex.hu: “Why should I take a stand on the issue?”. Judit Várga, Minister of Justice, powerful and close to the premier and his family, said: “In this situation Szájer made the only right decision”. And then to the question whether the case will have effects in the confrontation with the EU on the link between respect for the rule of law and ERF and the EU budget with aid to recipient countries such as Hungary (the two issues on which Hungary and Poland have vetoed the EU by blocking both the new budget and anti-Covid aid) and on the rule of law in general, Várga herself did not want to respond.
Third, Balazs Hídvéghi, an important exponent of Fidesz at the European Parliament, said: “Surprised and sad to learn about the story. I appreciate Szájer’s political activity because he did an excellent job, as recognized by his opponents; he is a man intelligent that like everyone can make mistakes, only those who are innocent can criticize him “. Othmar Karas, EPP MEP representative of the Austrian Oevp of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, asked for the resignation of the parent company Fidesz from the European Parliament Tamás Deutsch, because the latter had said that the method and language towards Hungary used by the group leader of the entire EPP, the German Manfred Weber, are “comparable to the Gestapo’s arguments”.
Declarations from opposition parties are expected. Parliament will have its next plenary session only next week. Yesterday he was in plenary meeting which ended before news arrived from Brussels on the real reasons for Szájer’s resignation. Parliament, however, discussed the other scandal that in recent days has affected the image of the government majority. That is the statements of the high exponent of Fidesz cultural policy and director of the Petöfi Museum, Demeter Szilard, who had compared the American tycoon of Hungarian Jewish origins George Soros to Hitler and the European Union to the Third Reich, stating that Soros and the EU they want a liberal Nazism and a liberal Shoah and that Hungarians and Poles today are in the situation of the Jews between 1933 and 1945.
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