The leader of the opposition party who wants to overthrow the Hungarian authoritarian ruler, Victor OrbanHe vowed that if he wins the election in April next year, he will enact a new constitution and “restore the rule of law.”
Péter Márki-Zay, a town mayor who later became Unexpected choice as a candidate for prime minister One of the six opposition parties made comments during a visit to Brussels, where he met with senior EU officials and politicians and conveyed the message that his priority is democracy and European integration.
“There is no democracy, no freedom of the press, no rule of law Hungary, We have to start from the beginning,” Márki-Zay told reporters. He said that the opposition coalition is drafting a new constitution and if they win, a referendum will be held.
“This is regime change. We are talking about regime change, not government change,” he said.
Márki-Zay, a Catholic father of seven children, also promised to delete Orbán’s “Homophobic” anti-LGBT laws And introduce same-sex marriage. While pointing out his opposition to divorce, he promised not to change the Hungarian law that allows divorce and abortion.
As a former supporter of the Orban Al-Shabaab, Marki-Zay said that he hopes Hungary will build on the foundation of love and peace, and align himself with Orban’s anti-minority movement and Abuse of philanthropist and financier George Soros.
“What we are opposed to is the one-party state established by Orban; this is a hate movement against different minorities: the LGBT community, the Roma community, but also Jews and other different minorities and certain people,” he said And mentioned Soros.
Since Orban returned to power in 2010, he has won Three-game losing streak, victory This allowed him to rewrite the Hungarian Constitution, join the Fidesz Party’s loyal supporters in courts and public institutions, and put Squeeze independent mediaAfter nearly ten years in power, Hungary became the first EU member state to be rated as “partially free” by the US watchdog organization Freedom House in 2019.
A recent opinion poll showed that Marchi Zai has led Orban by 4 points, which increases the possibility of facing serious electoral challenges.
Márki-Zay hopes to repeat his victory in Hódmezővásárhely, a town in southeastern Hungary, across the country. He was elected mayor in 2018 and defeated Fidesz in the anti-corruption campaign.
Márki-Zay tied a blue ribbon to show his opposition to corruption, and he attributed his success to increasing the turnout of anti-Orban voters and persuading the hesitant to choose him. As a politically independent person, he was elected as the prime minister’s candidate for a coalition of six parties last month, spanning the extreme left to the former extreme right.
Marki-Zay stated that the six parties have reached an agreement on “over 80%, possibly over 90%” issues facing Hungary. Although the two sides have differences on tax issues, he said that they have reached agreement on four basic principles: democracy, rule of law, market economy and European integration.
He insisted that Jobick, Once a far-right party, Support this agenda. “Jobik has changed a lot…the racism and intolerance of minorities, based on their skin color, based on their sexual orientation, their origins are unacceptable. We are vigorously Build a Hungary based on love, tolerance, and acceptance of people of different colors and backgrounds.”
After investigating the unexplainable wealth of Orbán’s friends and family, one of his first tasks is to fight corruption. If he wins, he promises to ensure that all corruption is investigated and violators are prosecuted. He told the Guardian that corruption related to the ruling party will be prosecuted, adding, “The same is true for the opposition. We will ensure that all corruption cases will and should be prosecuted.”
If he is the prime minister, he will make sure Hungary joins the EU’s new prosecutor, Something Orbán (and a handful of other EU leaders) avoided.
Any weak victory by the opposition may raise questions about his primary task: to amend the Hungarian Constitution, which requires a two-thirds majority.
Márki-Zay said that Orbán’s changes to the constitution were invalid, indicating that the opposition does not need to be bound by the two-thirds majority rule. “Everything Fidesz has done in the past 10 years is to make his power irreplaceable and Orbán invincible,” he said. “It has nothing to do with 51% or 67%. The fact is that it is unconstitutional. Of course, we must make a new constitution, yes, and pass it through a referendum.”
Marchi-Zay’s victory will surely be welcomed informally in Brussels, as he declared that the EU’s problems “can be resolved by more Europe”.
Take a more moderate attitude towards Brussels and other EU capitals, and a more indifferent attitude towards Russia and China. “We respect these powers, we respect these countries. But Hungary has not dealt with these countries on an equal basis,” he said, citing the Belgrade-Budapest railway supported by China, which is funded by a loan from Beijing, he said These railways are higher than the market interest rate, which is not in the interest of Hungarian taxpayers.
He also criticized Orban’s decision to allow the Russian International Investment Bank to use Budapest as its headquarters, a move that was seen as weakening Hungary’s determination to respond to any security threats from Moscow. “Orbán poses a security risk to Europe,” he pointed out, citing the actions of the IIB and the Hungarian authorities’ Use Pegasus spyware Oppose independent journalists and political commentators.
But not everything will change. One point of continuity in Orbán is its strong stance on irregular immigration. Márki-Zay said that the opposition parties have agreed that the border fence in Orbán will be kept. “I think this is a legal tool to control illegal immigration, so he may be right in defending European borders. He is wrong on many other immigration issues.”
