The following is a translation of a press release kindly provided to us by The Center for Fundamental Rights.
‘The political grey zone is the medium of foreign intervention: the window-dressing is new, but the background and the motives are unchanged,’ Miklós Szánthó, Director General for the Centre for Fundamental Rights, said in his speech at the conference hosted by the Research Institute for the Defence of Sovereignty. He also pointed out that, just like Voks 2025, next year’s Hungarian parliamentary election is essentially about Hungarian independence, because ‘you can only make one mistake in the context of Ukraine’s forced accession to the EU’.
‘Over decades, the progressive left-wing elite in the West has built up a political grey zone, a parallel power machine that interferes in the internal affairs of countries without democratic legitimacy. This machine exerts pressure on elected governments by bypassing the legislative and executive branches, with the help of NGOs, media networks, and foreign-funded actors, including in Hungary,’ Director Szánthó has pointed out.
The Director General also referred to the results of the recent national survey Voks 2025, which he said clearly showed that the Hungarian people reject the accelerated accession of Ukraine to the EU, a country that is currently at war. ‘This would neither serve our economic interests nor our social stability, but would only give Brussels another pretext for centralization,’ the speaker said. He also stressed that those who support this process ‘are not our representatives, but foreign agents on an assignment’.
He then went on to warn that this network poses a threat not only to sovereignty but also to democracy, as they use foreign money to deceive voters and support political actors who would not represent the interests of Hungary but those of Brussels. Szánthó added that ‘[Hungarian opposition leader] Péter Magyar would not bring about a regime change, but would serve the system—not the regime of the Hungarian people, but of the pro-war, pro-Ukrainian globalists.’
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