Luxembourgian foreign minister Jean Asselborn is not on the Hungarian electoral registry, so “what he says is irrelevant”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI.
“As it has done during the past eight years, Hungary is continuing to strive to approach European issues of major importance in a realistic manner, including the debate on the future of Europe, in which the Hungarian Government has ‘extremely spirited things to say’, particularly about migration”, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács told BBC Radio on Monday.
“The OSCE does not have the power or authority to examine a political campaign from a political perspective”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Hungarian TV2 television’s Tuesday morning show.
On Sunday morning the Hungarian news portal Origo posted an interview with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, President of Fidesz. Mr. Orbán said that in the election the stakes would be high, as before the end of this year, in 2018, Brussels would try to resettle ten thousand migrants in Hungary. Hungarians, he said, faced a major joint decision on excluding immigrants from Hungary and defending the country. “Today we must put aside comfort”, he stated, as “the Sorosists will all be there, so we should be there, too.” The Prime Minister stressed that “we must make the right decision, because if we make a mistake, it will be impossible to correct it.” He urged everyone to go out and cast both their votes for Fidesz.
In a video posted on his Facebook account on Saturday afternoon, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that on Sunday “we will have to decide on how to spend our hard-earnt money: on our children, grandchildren, family support, pensioners and the elderly; or on immigrants.”
Late on Sunday evening Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that “we have achieved a crucial victory: we have been given – and we have created – the opportunity to defend Hungary.”
Early on Sunday morning, after casting his vote at Zugliget Elementary School in Budapest’s District XII, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told journalists that what is at stake in the parliamentary election is Hungary’s future.
“Following a record turnout, an unparalleled level of support was received by the Hungarian Government, which primarily wants to use this mandate to assure the safety of the Hungarian people”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Hungarian M1 television on Monday morning.
“The parliamentary elections on Sunday will determine the fate of the people who live here for a long time to come, because we will decide on whether Hungary will continue to have a government that protects the countries interests or one that bows to international pressure following 8 April”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference in Dunakeszi.
“For years, the consistent standpoint of Hungary and the other members of the Visegrád Group (V4) has been that illegal immigration is dangerous, and accordingly must be stopped, and that the borders must be protected”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in an interview published in Saturday’s edition of Czech daily Lidové Noviny.