The Time Has Come

13 June 2009

The 23rd congress of Fidesz on June 13th reelected Viktor Orbán as chairman of the party and adopted a resolution of the party's fundamental values.


On 13 June Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union held its 23rd Congress in Budapest. A week after the party’s 56% landslide victory at the European elections, chairman Viktor Orbán and all four vice-chairmen were reelected to their respective positions.

As Orbán said, “There is one political party that is capable of governing Hungary, and that party is Fidesz. And what follows, after a 40 percentage-point break, are two medium-sized ones competing for the second position and then a number of other small parties struggling to make it to the parliament. This is the new political landscape of the country, and this is not by accident”. He added that Fidesz “would not have to enter any form of coalition. A 56 percent share of the votes at the next elections will mean a massive majority in parliament. We will only make a coalition with people who embrace liberty”.

The Congrees approved a manifesto which stated that Fidesz is and will be, inter alia, a member of the European People’s Party, a strategic partner of the Christian Democratic People’s Party, a political force that rules out any coalition or cooperation with the post-communist socialist party and the extreme right, a party that protects the rights of all ethnic Hungarians living in the Carpathian Basin and a party that is firmly attached to its Trans-Atlantic principles.  

“Do not take our victory for granted. Please do not believe that the Socialists have given it up. I am convinced that they are frightened by what they saw in Pécs this May and last Sunday at the European elections. Not only are they frightened, they are horrified. The numbers that they see tell them that the change is inevitably coming and that it will be more profound than they have feared”, said the chairman of Fidesz. Orbán said that what “the politicians of the Gyurcsány-Bajnai era” feared most was that they would be held responsible for their years in power. “They fear this precisely because they know what they have done and I am sure they are working hard to erase all the signs that remain and to delete all the documents so as to make it more difficult to uncover the truth”, he added.

“Now is the time for the ultimate showdown between those who believe in liberty and those who are in power now. This is the final confrontation before we can start working to rebuild a free Hungary.”

Speaking of the future, Viktor Orbán repeated his pledge to make no compromise with the incumbent cabinet and any politicians of the “Gyurcsány-Bajnai era”. “I am here to speak in the name of Hungary: we will leave no-one behind, not one single person, therefore we shall make no compromise with those who belong to the Gyurcsány-Bajnai era. Now is the time. This is the time to make our twenty year-old dreams come true, now is the time to break down the walls surrounding us. Now is the time to change Hungary”, concluded the former prime minister.

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  • Viktor Orbán, 52
  • Lawyer, graduated at Eötvös Loránd University and studied at Pembroke College, Oxford
  • Married to Anikó Lévai
  • They have five children: Ráhel, Gáspár, Sára, Róza, Flóra
  • Chairman of FIDESZ, vice-chairman of the European People's Party

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