We need a government which protects affordable fuel and household energy costs

In Hungarian politics, the Fidesz-Christian Democratic People's Party alliance is the only community which is able to provide the security necessary for Hungary; we need a government which protects affordable fuel and household energy costs, Prime Minister-President of Fidesz Viktor Orbán Viktor stated at an election rally of the government parties in Sopron on Wednesday.

Mr Orbán said many people commute from Sopron to work in Austria, many people from Sopron receive their salaries there, but pay household energy bills and buy fuel in Hungary. "Just imagine this the other way around, that you would have to buy fuel in Austria and to pay the household energy bills that people over there pay from a Hungarian salary," he suggested, stressing that we need a government which protects Hungarian families, affordable fuel and affordable household energy costs.

He recalled: today, people in Poland pay HUF 900,000, while people in the Czech Republic pay as much as HUF 1 million for the same quantity of energy. Hungarians, however, only pay HUF 250,000, and this is also at stake in the elections.

The President of Fidesz laid down that the phrase 'staying out' will be the most important phrase of the next four years because Hungary must stay out of the war, "the stupid European economic policy" and the scheme that the Europeans are sending their money and weapons to Ukraine. He said if a civic, patriotic and Christian government is formed, then Hungary will stay out of the war, "Hungary will be a country revolving around its own axis, and we will only follow our own national interests."

He warned: we can only stay out of the war with national unity, and for this the government-party forces will need 3 million votes in the Sunday elections. He said everything that is brought up against the government side as criticism or complaint is, in actual fact, "an argument for us."

He added: they say that we have been in government for too long, while the CSU has been in office for almost 70 years, though this may be, even for him, a little too much. In his view, in the coming years, experience will be the most precious asset, "the hardest currency." "Experience stems from work and time, and we have worked much, we have seen much, we have smelt enough gunpowder […] if I look around in Hungarian politics […] we are the only community that is able to provide the necessary security for Hungary," he pointed out.

He promised: if there is trust, in the next four years, he and his government will wholeheartedly serve Hungary's national interests.

The Prime Minister stressed: what is most at stake in the elections is whether the country will elect a pro-Ukraine or a patriotic government. Hungary is number one, before all other countries, he laid down, stressing that this is not a foreign policy issue, but the most important economic issue as under a pro-Ukraine government the Hungarians' money would go to Ukraine.

He highlighted: Ukraine is an attacked country in trouble, such a state must be helped and Hungary did provide a fair share of help, having let everyone in without question, having provided shelter, food, jobs and Ukrainian-language schools for them. "We have given Ukraine everything our Christian conscience demands, but what they're now demanding of us is something that we will never give them. Because we won't destroy Hungary in the interest of the Ukrainians. We won't send our children as soldiers to Ukraine, we won't give them our money, and we won't give them our weapons."

He also spoke about the fact that the Ukrainians imposed an oil blockade on Hungary because they were hoping to push the country into economic chaos which would in turn topple the government. In his view, they warded this threat off and made it clear that Ukraine - whose history of 30 years Hungary respects - "cannot blackmail a 1,100-year-old Hungary."

He indicated: due to this, the Hungarian government will block every decision favouring Ukraine in the European Union until they reopen the oil pipeline. "The are threatening the country in vain, they are threatening me or my family in vain, we won't give up on this," he added.

Mr Orbán also said the visit of the Vice President of the United States of America is proof of the fact that the world's greatest and most powerful country is Hungary's ally. This is good because it provides security for every Hungarian, for every Hungarian family, and provides security for the whole of Hungary, he pointed out.

It is also important that the Vice President was here because "what's happening in Western Europe hurts us," he said. We are a western country, ever since St. Stephen, our place has been in the Catholic, Christian West. It hurts us to see what is happening in Western Europe, it hurts us that the German Christian Democrats and CSU have become so left-wing that they have made cooperation with them impossible, Mr Orbán stated.

Today, our strongest ties to the western world are not the German sister parties, but the Republicans of the United States cooperating with us, he added. At the same time, the Vice President's visit refutes all foolish accusations of "us being in any way pro-Russian." It is the vice president of the Americans, not the Russians who came to Hungary, he said.

The Prime Minister asked members of his audience to support local candidate of Fidesz-Christian Democratic People's Party Attila Barcza in the elections.

In reference to the counter-demonstrators who appeared at the rally, he said while they also treat uninvited guests humanely, they will never allow them "to shout our heads off" as uninvited guests.

He said the campaign is like a four-hundred-metre race, and now they are at the last one hundred metres. He asked his audience not to speculate, not to make any calculations, not to do the sums, but to do one thing, to mobilise all their acquaintances. He added: in 2002 they said everyone should bring with them one more person. "Now we say that everyone should bring with them everyone else," he said.