From: Péter Halmai
Date: 2009 október 26.
Subject: Vona uses October 23rd speech to condemn extremism
To: Kutasi József
Vona uses October 23rd speech to condemn extremism
"Huge attendance"In a speech to tens of thousands of Jobbik supporters this Friday, the President of the Movement for a Better Hungary, Gábor Vona, challenged Hungary's political establishment to stop whipping up non-existent controversy in a vain attempt to reinforce their own political relevance; and square up to the challenge, as Jobbik had, of dealing with the horrendous political extremism which had truly blighted the first 20 years of the modern Hungarian Republic.
No word better described, said Vona, the political thievery and criminality which has been the sad and enduring hallmark of successive Hungarian governments; which had inevitably resulted in the country's economic woes. Not to mention the realities of a security infrastructure more concerned with repressing their own people, in order to keep corrupt vested interests in power, than ensuring the safety of the citizen.
What word would be more accurate to describe such criminality of government?
Moreover, how else would one characterize eight long years of vacant, passive and impotent opposition; which had permitted such injustices to be committed against the Hungarian people, like the destruction of their economy and their culture, and to let the perpetrators of this to escape consequence-free?
In the six short years since the party's founding Jobbik had accomplished more to improve the lot of the nation than those parliamentarians who had claimed this objective to be their paid career.
It had become self-evident not only to Hungary, but to Europe as a whole, said the Jobbik President, that European Jobbik parliamentarians had acquitted themselves more capable than the rest of the political establishment had managed to since the country's accession to the Union.
And on the basis of this, on the basis of proven and demonstrated performance and achievement, the Hungarian people were now unambiguous in their determination to see the Movement for a Better Hungary as a serious and significant force to be reckoned with, in the next Hungarian parliament come the elections planned for April 2010.
Vona also pledged, that just as Jobbik had demonstrated at the polls its ability to eliminate the SZDSZ as an electorally significant party (whose self-evidently anti-Hungarian perspective the country had ceased to have any more patience for), so too would Jobbik finally ensure that Hungary had the true "regime change" that it has been waiting for, for twenty long years, with the consigning of the MSZP to exactly the same fate.
Again and again, in economics, law and order, welfare reform, public service reform, debt renegotiation and all policy areas, Jobbik had been proving itself to be the only party on the Hungarian political scene with fresh and workable ideas and the willingness to carry these out. The release of the party's election manifesto in January would resolutely convince the Hungarian electorate of this fact.
And in a direct challenge to his only electoral rival, Vona called upon Viktor Orbán to explain how he could continue in a nonsensical campaign of sideways dismissals of Jobbik as the "far-" end of the political spectrum; by listing Jobbik policy after Jobbik policy that no politician, and certainly not Orbán, could ever possibly declare themselves against; many of which in fact the Fidesz leader had spent a large part of the preceding weeks pilfering.
As the only party unashamedly dedicated to the principle of governing in the interests of the Hungarian people, as no more than a patriotic Christian conservative party, it was Jobbik that represented the real change of government that the Hungarian people sought.
In a speech which was marked by Vona's characteristic blend of good humour, and deep seriousness (and which concluded with many in the crowd calling him the country's Prime Minister in waiting), the Jobbik president assured the party's supporters and the country at large that it was the Movement for a Better Hungary's mission not only to unashamedly call for the "brighter future" that the country so richly deserved and has been so cruelly denied it; but also to make it happen, and to make such a real and possible future one that the whole country could believe in.
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