The concept of liberal democracy has ceased to exist and has become “liberal non-democracy”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview to Slovak news portal postoj.sk late on Wednesday.
In the interview, the prime minister discussed issues such as the future of the European Union and central Europe, migration and Covid-19 vaccines.
Asked about the “building of an illiberal country”, Orbán said that the concept of liberal democracy had ceased to exist and had been replaced by “liberal non-democracy”. This form of governance, he said, “includes liberalism, but doesn’t include democracy”. Liberals, he said, strived for a hegemony of opinion, which they aimed to achieve through the use of political correctness by “stigmatising conservatives and Christian Democrats and sidelining them”.
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The European Union, as Hungary understands it, is composed of sovereign nations, but some member states are trying to transfer more powers to Brussels and strengthen EU institutions, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview published in the German magazine Stern on Thursday.
“We, in Hungary, say that you can only be a good European, if you are a good Hungarian,” Orbán said, adding that based on their historical experience, Hungarians view a push toward “centralism” with concern. “We would not want to give up again the sovereignty and the rule of law achieved for central and eastern Europe 31 years ago,” he said.