The Prime Minister of Hungary, the ultra-conservative Viktor Orbán, predicted yesterday in Budapest the soon beginning of a new world order after the European elections in June and the US presidential elections in November, if right-wing and ultra-right parties win them in the EU countries and Donald Trump in the United States, as he trusts and hopes. “This year we will be able to close an infamous stage of Western civilization, the world order based on progressive-liberal hegemony,” said Orbán in his opening speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), organized by an ultra-conservative Hungarian think tank, which brings together politicians and activists from this ideological environment from various countries. This is its third edition and lasts two days.
According to Orbán, the two electoral events will encourage “a new sovereign world order” based on national interests. “These elections coincide with important changes in global political and geopolitical trends; “The order of the world is changing, and we must make our cause triumph in the midst of these changes,” he said. Progressive liberals sense the danger; Replacing this era means replacing them.”
The event, organized by the Center for Fundamental Rights ideas laboratory, included far-right leaders such as the Dutch Geert Wilders (Party for Freedom, PVV) and the Spanish Santiago Abascal (Vox) and populist right-wing leaders, such as the former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (Law and Justice).
The invective against what the Hungarian leader calls “progressive-liberal hegemony” included the institutions of the European Union, something common in his speeches, but which now takes on special meaning, since Hungary assumes the semiannual rotating presidency of the European Union on July 1. EU Council. Precisely on Wednesday, the plenary session of the European Parliament considered that the Orbán Government “will not be able to credibly carry out the current presidency, due to the situation of the rule of law in Hungary. It is one of the conclusions of the final report of this legislature that evaluates Hungarian democracy, approved by 399 votes in favor, 117 against and 28 abstentions.
