Tamás Deutsch: We Are Preparing for Victory

Tamás Deutsch said that the Fidesz national presidency wanted to put together a winning team for the EP elections. The EP list of Fidesz and the Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP) was put together on the basis that the EP cycle ahead of them will probably be the most difficult and the toughest.

He said that despite the “extremely brutal political blackmail” of recent times, Hungary and Hungarian sovereignty had never been subjected to so many “brutal attacks” as could be expected in the coming years.

“For this reason, it was necessary to put together an EP delegation that can make it a reality that the Fidesz-KDNP team wins the fifth EP elections and that is capable of “fighting” the attacks and defending Hungarian sovereignty in the following five-year term”, he said.

Tamás Deutsch stressed that the list of Fidesz and the KDNP was a national list, as what they have been saying was not just empty talk in the context of the cross-border reunification of the Carpathian Basin Hungarians.

He stressed that in the case of the two Hungarian national communities living outside the EU, it is particularly important that the Fidesz-KDNP list includes representatives of the Hungarian communities of Vojvodina and Transcarpathia in the European decision-making process.

This is particularly important at a time when “the accession of the Western Balkans, including Serbia, to the EU needs to be given a boost”, and the war in Ukraine makes it important for the Hungarian community of Transcarpathia to have a representative in the European Parliament.

In the radio interview, Tamás Deutsch also said that “farmers in Western Europe have already revolted against the Brussels policy of attacking the European agricultural economy”, and that if they win, representing farmers’ interests will also be a major issue in the coming five years.

For months, he said, the “European mainstream” has been saying that a significant “right-wing, sovereignist surge” is expected in the June EP elections. According to Tamás Deutsch, if the election results are favourable and the potential partners are willing to cooperate, there is a chance that a “large, even united, right-wing, conservative, sovereignist group could be formed in the EP with Fidesz and the KDNP”.

Such a group could radically reshape the political map of the European Union (EU), so there is a good chance of a strengthening of the right, which would also give Hungary more room to manoeuvre, he said.

On the possible re-election of Ursula von der Leyen, Tamás Deutsch said that he sees an agreement among the 27 heads of state and government to unanimously support the current President of the European Commission as almost impossible.

Tamás Deutsch said that next week’s plenary session in Brussels will see yet another of “countless” Hungarian debates in the current EP cycle, where “the European left and the Hungarian dollar left will once again put Hungary on the agenda in the European Parliament”. He added that “the choreography is the same: the same familiar lies, slander and fabricated pretexts” to attack Hungary and the Hungarian people.

He added that the real reason, however, is clear, as the EP is set to vote next week in its “mini-plenary session” on the EU’s new migration pact, which essentially gives a “green light” to illegal immigration into Europe. 

We Hungarian MEPs from Fidesz-KDNP have never supported this “pro-migration bill, so we are being punished again with another debate”, he said. He pointed out that next week and at the last “regular” plenary session at the end of April, the EP will discuss numerous “pro-war proposals that seek to escalate and extend the war in Ukraine”. 

He stressed that Hungary’s position is well known: “We have a pro-peace position, an immediate ceasefire and the start of peace negotiations”. This also provokes opposition from the “pro-war” members of the Brussels bureaucracy, he added.  

“No matter how big the attack, how strong the blackmail coming from Brussels, we will not change our position”, Tamás Deutsch told the Vasárnapi interview.