Fidesz is the safe choice if Hungary is to be great and strong again – Orbán

Hungary’s bigger governing party, Fidesz, held a congress in Budapest on Saturday. Thousands of representatives of the party from 1200 municipalities from around the country were in attendance. As the Fidesz faction’s spokesperson pointed out, they came despite the heavy snowfall of the past few days, which has presented challenges for travelling throughout Hungary.

In an uncertain world, safety is worth more than anything. We could always be counted on," Viktor Orbán posted ahead of the gathering on his social media page. He also shared the slogan of the congress: "The safe choice" and explained that the Fidesz government was there when Europe was suffering from a financial crisis, when migrants were storming the country's borders, when a pandemic was raging, and they are still here now, “when Brussels bureaucrats and their domestic minions would like to drag us into the war raging in our neighbourhood.”

The public part of the congress (streamed on various sites) included speeches from leading Fidesz politicians. House Speaker and one of the founding members of Fidesz, László Kövér declared that

"In this election, everything is at stake. Literally, and spelled with all caps".

According to Kövér, if Hungarians make the wrong choice in the upcoming election, they could lose everythin. For example, the country could lose the utility price cuts, its "world-class family support system," job security, and the growth of its national wealth. Kövér also said that the purpose behind the war (in Ukraine – TN) is for global financial networks to break down nation states and create a Brussels-controlled union.

"A significant portion of the European elite are lackeys and servants of this private financial power."

He also said that Hungarians do not want to be anybody's subservient subjects and will not allow Cossack hordes directed from Brussels to rule the country. "We want to remain who we are."

Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó started by saying that being Hungary's foreign minister is the greatest thing in the world – although he added there is one downside to his job: having to sit in a dark, windowless room with his European colleagues 15 times a year. In the past few years, these meetings have become like war councils according to him. As Szijjártó sees it, Europe's nuclear powers have already started waging a war.

We Hungarians are in the greatest danger because we are the closest, and Ukrainian politics is strongly anti-Hungarian.

He believes there is a plan in place to drag Hungary into war. There is only one obstacle to this: Viktor Orbán's government. According to Szijjártó, if Fidesz does not win, the plan drawn up in Brussels and Kyiv will end up being implemented. He therefore urged the delegates to hold out for the next three months, because everything depends on this.

Kinga Gál, Fidesz’ Deputy President and MEP stressed that patriots are making gains in more and more countries in the European Union.

"We are the ones who dare to say that what is actually happening in Brussels is a coup d'état against sovereign European nations."

According to Gál, the Brussels elite is abusing EU law and using the various crises of recent years to strengthen its grip on power. The Fidesz MEP also stated that, in today's Europe, millions of people see Viktor Orbán and Fidesz as the only reliable alternative. In her opinion, Fidesz is the only one that can guarantee that Brussels will not be the one dictating how we should live and that can preserve the gains we have achieved so far in terms of welfare. “We are the bastion of sovereignty against the Brussels elite.”

In-between the various on-site Hungarian speakers, the organizers played video messages of support sent by several Fidesz allies from around the world. These included the president of Spain's Vox party, Santiago Abascal, Matteo Salvini, of Italy's Lega, the Austrian FPÖ’s Herbert Kickl, Alice Weidel, the co-chair of Germany’s AfD, Marine Le Pen from France’s far-right National Rally, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Czech PM Andrej Babiš, Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, and Argentinian President Javier Milei. Surprisingly, there was even a message from American actor Rob Schneider, who said that Hungarians are fortunate that their government is not submitting to the "world government." He congratulated Viktor Orbán on this and encouraged Hungarians to vote for the Fidesz president in the next election.

The last one to speak before the main speaker was János Lázár, Minister of Construction and Transport. He started out by stressing that this election can only be won on the streets and in the digital trenches. In his opinion, ordinary Hungarians can only count on Fidesz if they want to get ahead. He believes that Fidesz is the only political force that addresses the everyday problems of ordinary people. Our place is with the workers, the manual labourers, he said, and then proceeded to explain why women, the youth, or gypsies can only count on Fidesz to make their lives better.

Before the attendees voted – by waving small Hungarian flags – on whether Viktor Orbán should remain president of the party, (it was a unanimous yes) Lázár summarized the gist of his message by stating that Fidesz will win the upcoming election because of Viktor Orbán, because

in 2026, Viktor Orbán is Hungary's strongest weapon.

When Viktor Orbán took the stage shortly afterwards, he spoke about the 106 Fidesz candidates whose names were being made public today as "the brave women and men who are willing to fight for the trust of the Hungarian people and stand ready to support the Hungarian government for four years in the aftermath of victory”.

He said that he had spoken with all 106 of them and said this was "a high-quality team of 106 select people, from whose ranks I could put together two governments as early as tomorrow." He then announced that they would soon (on 20 February) also be announcing the national list of candidates and Fidesz's prime ministerial candidate.

"Even after twenty years as prime minister, I am ready for the task,"

Orbán announced, saying that he still feels that he is in his prime and feels like a novice compared to the American, Russian, Chinese, and Turkish presidents.

He stressed that predictability, security and experience are the things the country needs right now, and added that nothing is more important in the life of a nation than unity, shared belief in the nation's future, and national cooperation – Fidesz being the only one that can deliver on this.

Addressing the 106 candidates, he said: You must talk to everyone. He also specified the topics they should definitely talk about: war, migration, and gender issues, because these are all "irreversible." According to the Prime Minister, one cannot simply turn a country that has been an immigrant country back into a "non-immigrant country," and Western European countries have irreversibly become countries of immigrants. Orbán claimed that Brussels will turn anyone who does not rebel against this into a "country of immigrants."

"Brussels is the enemy of European Christian civilization,"

he said, summarizing his view.

However, according to him, eradicating love of country and of Jesus Christ from the hearts of native Europeans has not been entirely successful, and these Europeans are refusing to allow their children to be treated as "gender guinea pigs." The European liberal elite though is determined to use all means at its disposal to crush the resistance of rebellious countries, he added.

He then turned to explaining that this is one reason why the Tisza Party and the Democratic Coalition (DK) are a threat to Hungary – because they would allow this “rewiring of our children’s minds” and would also transform the economy into “a war economy á’la Brussels”. He warned Hungarian youth that if they vote for the Tisza Party in April, they will be voting against their own future, and called “Herr Weber” the biggest warmonger of all. “Listen to your conscience, get on board with us before Weber drafts you and you end up paying high interest rates!” Orbán said. "You can only mess this up once”.

According to Orbán, the new world order will bring dangers and

international organizations are now toothless lions; we cannot rely on them to help us in times of need,

he said.

The era of personal relationships, bilateral agreements, power, and nations has arrived. In his opinion, he started preparing for this in good time. His message to those who have been laughing at Hungarian foreign policy in the past was: He laughs best who laughs last.

Fidesz is the safe choice if Hungary is to be great and strong again

according to Orbán.

He concluded by saying that in April, Hungarians will not be choosing a government, but a future. If we remain humble, we will win again, he told the delegates, who raised their flags high in response before they posed for a group photo with him.