The chairman of the Hungarian opposition party Fidesz and former prime minister Viktor Orbán analyzed the 16 years of Fidesz’s rule and the reasons for the April election loss. He published the document under the title “Mission” on the Fidesz website just before Saturday’s party congress, reports the TASR correspondent in Budapest.
In short:
- Viktor Orbán published the Misia document analyzing sixteen years of Fidesz rule
- After sixteen years of rule, Fidesz went into opposition and Orbán resigned
- Orbán describes the European Union as the biggest threat to Hungarian sovereignty
The Fidesz convention, which began at 10 a.m., comes three years after the previous convention and after April’s parliamentary elections that saw the party in opposition after 16 years of rule. However, Orbán gave up his mandate. At the convention, there will also be a radical change in the organizational structure of Fidesz.
Criticism of the European Union
According to Orbán, today the European Union represents the biggest threat to Hungarian sovereignty, and with the change of government, the “liberal interim government based in Brussels” took control of the country.
The period since 2010, when Fidesz returned to power, is described by the party chairman as a continuous “fight for freedom” against the Brussels bureaucracy, Germany, the Soros network and the American Democrats.
Economic successes and defeat
Based on the results of his government’s analysis, he highlighted the reduction of household overhead costs, the family support system, the reduction of national debt and the increase of foreign exchange reserves, explaining that after 2022 the previous rise was interrupted by the Russian-Ukrainian war and the sanctions policy of Brussels, which led to defeat in 2026.
One of the central ideas of the analysis is that in addition to economic difficulties, a cultural factor also contributed to the defeat. In order for the Fidesz-KDNP bloc to gain another four years of support from the voters despite the unfavorable economic situation, according to Orbán, the “leading layer of the fight for freedom” should have created a cultural model that would maintain people’s favor even without material benefit. According to him, this model has not yet been born and it would take at least another four years to create it.
Cultural challenges for Fidesz
The president of Fidesz pointed out that in the meantime, a cultural elite organized on the Internet appeared, which “changed people’s thinking and presented the war for independence, and indeed all wars for independence, as a step that was flawed from the beginning and disrupted a comfortable consumer life.”
Orbán stated that “the possible revival of the Fidesz-KDNP bloc may not come from the elite, but from the popular and social wings of the right, as the Hungarian intellectual and economic elite is characterized by arrogance and materialism.”
