“I’ve been waiting to talk to you for a long time. I’ve been here for a month, and you’re the first to ask,” said Prime Minister Bálint Ruff in parliament on Monday after Fidesz representative Miklós Panyi asked him an immediate question.
Panyi, who worked as state secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office under the previous government, asked the new minister: “Is this the party state already?” According to the Fidesz representative, the Tisza politicians “want to violently remove” the head of all democratically elected bodies. According to him, the municipalities were also attacked because “the popular mayors are probably standing in their way”, which, in his opinion, is “customary in the party state”.
In response to Bálint Ruff, he spoke about the stages of grief and said that Fidesz is in a state of denial. The minister also spoke about this during his ministerial hearing, which we wrote in detail here.
“As I see it, you’ve been in denial for a month, still”
– said Bálint Ruff, who asked Panyi back: “You were the state secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office in a country, in a government that governed for 16 years, with a four-two-thirds majority, and for six years, six years with decree governance. You come here, and instead of thinking about what has been done in the last 16 years, especially in the last six years, you ask me things like… so I don’t know What do you want to know from me? Do you have a party state in Hungary? You ask me this after 16 years of Fidesz?”
The minister recalled that in 2010, when the MSZP lost the election, the socialist state secretaries and ministers joined a small faction and did the same. “First look at yourselves,” how they robbed the country, and if they’ve apologized, you can talk further, Ruff said.
Bálint Ruff’s speech you can listen here:
