Judit Czunyiné Bertalan, head of Védvonal, and Viktor Orbán, president of Fidesz.
Viktor Orbán posted a copy of the national creed on the wall of his office, sharing a video of it on his social media page.
“Well, let Tisza take it down from there!” wrote the former prime minister. He added: “We are proud of every line of the national creed! God, bless the Hungarians!”
As reported by Magyar Nemzet, Fidesz and the Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP) spoke out on Thursday against the removal of the national creed from public institutions, viewing it as an attack on Hungarian constitutionalism.
Bertalan Havasi, Fidesz’s communications director, wrote in a statement: Péter Magyar has launched yet another attack against Hungarian constitutionalism, since the national creed is the very first chapter of the Fundamental Law, and the constitution must be interpreted in accordance with it. Bence Rétvári, the KDNP’s parliamentary group leader, called it shocking that the Tisza government sees such a threat in the phrases contained in the national creed that it is banning it from public institutions.
The full text of the National Creed:
“God, bless the Hungarian people!
National Creed
WE, THE MEMBERS OF THE HUNGARIAN NATION, at the dawn of the new millennium, taking responsibility for all Hungarians, hereby declare the following:
We are proud that a thousand years ago, our King Saint Stephen laid the Hungarian State upon a firm foundation and made our homeland part of Christian Europe.
We are proud of our ancestors who fought for the survival, freedom, and independence of our country.
We are proud of the great intellectual achievements of the Hungarian people.
We are proud that our people defended Europe in battles for centuries and enriched its common values with their talent and diligence.
We acknowledge the role of Christianity in preserving our nation. We respect the diverse religious traditions of our country.
We pledge to preserve the intellectual and spiritual unity of our nation, which has been torn apart by the storms of the past century. We declare that the nationalities living among us are part of the Hungarian political community and are state-forming factors.
We commit to nurturing and preserving our heritage, our unique language, Hungarian culture, the languages and cultures of the nationalities in Hungary, and the natural and man-made treasures of the Carpathian Basin.
We bear responsibility for our descendants; therefore, through the careful use of our material, intellectual, and natural resources, we safeguard the living conditions of future generations.
We believe that our national culture is a rich contribution to the diversity of European unity.
We respect the freedom and culture of other peoples and strive for cooperation with all nations of the world.
We believe that human dignity is the foundation of human existence.
We believe that individual freedom can only flourish through cooperation with others.
We believe that the family and the nation are the most important frameworks of our coexistence, and that loyalty, faith, and love are the fundamental values of our unity.
We believe that the foundation of the community’s strength and the honor of every person is work, the achievement of the human spirit.
We believe in the duty to help the disadvantaged and the poor.
We believe that the common goal of the citizen and the state is the fulfillment of a good life, security, order, justice, and freedom.
We believe that the rule of the people exists only where the state serves its citizens and manages their affairs fairly, without abuse or partiality.
We respect the achievements of our historical constitution and the Holy Crown, which embodies Hungary’s constitutional state continuity and the unity of the nation.
We affirm that the protection of our self-identity, rooted in our historical constitution, is a fundamental duty of the state.
We do not recognize the suspension of our historical constitution that occurred due to foreign occupations.
We reject the statute of limitations on the inhuman crimes committed against the Hungarian nation and its citizens under the rule of the National Socialist and Communist dictatorships.
We do not recognize the 1949 communist constitution, as it served as the foundation for a tyrannical regime; therefore, we declare it null and void.
We agree with the members of the first free National Assembly, who stated in their first resolution that our present-day freedom sprang from our 1956 revolution.
We date the restoration of our country’s state sovereignty, lost on March 19, 1944, to May 2, 1990, the date of the formation of the first freely elected representative body. We regard this day as the beginning of our country’s new democracy and constitutional order.
We believe that after the decades of the twentieth century that led to moral upheaval, we have an inescapable need for spiritual and intellectual renewal.
We have faith in a future shaped together, in the dedication of the younger generations. We believe that our children and grandchildren will once again make Hungary great through their talent, perseverance, and inner strength.
Our Fundamental Law is the foundation of our legal system, a covenant between Hungarians of the past, present, and future. It is a living framework that expresses the will of the nation, the form in which we wish to live.
We, the citizens of Hungary, are ready to base our country’s order on the cooperation of the nation.”
Via Magyar Nemzet; Featured image: Facebook/Orbán Viktor
