Before the Hungarian parliamentary elections last month, László Toroczkai, leader of Mi Hazánk (“Our Homeland”), was hopeful that his party would end up a kingmaker and vowed not to cede to either Fidesz or Tisza if it meant going against his party’s nationalist interests.
As it turned out, Tisza, led by Péter Magyar, won by a landslide, achieving an unprecedented number of seats in the National Assembly and easily getting the two-thirds majority needed to rule as it wants.
Mi Hazánk ended up just crossing the threshold to enter parliament with 5.9 percent of the vote. Considered a hard-right party, Toroczkai is now claiming to be the only party capable of standing up for Hungary’s sovereignty. And although he says it will be a challenge, he is dedicated to trying to grow his base.
“Mi Hazánk wanted to become an unavoidable force in parliament, but it didn’t turn out that way. At the same time, I can’t hide our disappointment. Many more people sympathize with Mi Hazánk Movement than voted for us,” he said in an interview with Mandiner.
Toroczkai also noted that, given the censorship his party faced on Facebook and Instagram, the result is a success. The party leader actually congratulated Meta, the parent of both social media platforms, after Magyar won.
“Congratulations to Facebook, or more precisely to the global corporate giant behind it, Meta, and to the bankers for their victory! They’ve made their first Hungarian prime minister. Rothschild Bank’s former banker, France’s current president, Emmanuel Macron, was among the first to congratulate Péter Magyar,” he posted on X at the time.
In his interview with Mandiner, published just this morning, Toroczkai appeared to believe Tisza would “radically decrease corruption and nepotism and increase competition.” However, he took to X again last night to express his disappointment over the news that Magyar named his brother-in-law, Márton Melléthei-Barna, as minister of justice.
“I had hoped that at least in this area, the Tisza Party’s governance would bring change,” he wrote, right after slamming Fidesz for overseeing an era when “nepotism became widespread in public administration, diplomacy, (and almost everywhere appointments were made).”
Toroczkai further revealed that the new justice minister is a former employee of Oppenheim Law Firm, which represented Meta against him when he sued the Marc Zuckerberg-owned tech behemoth for alleged rampant censorship he and his party faced on both Facebook and Instagram.
“It seems I wasn’t wrong when I congratulated Facebook on election night. In any case, it will be an interesting situation when I later ask the new Parliament for the new Minister of Justice to take action against the interventions by Meta and other global tech companies, which seriously violate equal opportunities as well as the integrity of elections in Hungary,” he concluded in his post.
The right-wing leader did concede that Magyar will succeed in freeing up EU funds for Hungary, and along with positive economic policy measures taken under Fidesz, he feels GDP should get a boost, which, in turn, will strengthen Tisza.
“There is the 8,000 billion forints that the European Commission blackmailed Hungary with, and with this, it clearly interfered in the election, since it immediately indicated afterwards that the money would come. They will reach an agreement with Péter Magyar, which will boost the Hungarian economy,” Toroczkai told Mandiner.
Still, this has come with a price tag, which the Mi Hazánk leader sees as a direct threat to Hungary’s sovereignty. “Now, bankers much bigger than Soros influence politics, elections, and the value system. These circles do what they want with the forint, and now they will leave the forint strong for a while. In addition, inflation and corruption are minimal, EU funds are coming, and all this will strengthen the Hungarian economy. Unless what happened at the Strait of Hormuz brings down the world economy, but that is a completely different situation,” he said.
Toroczkai also points to a glaring issue, which will be the real test for Magyar: how to keep this “colorful” electorate that ousted Viktor Orbán together.
“Power and a strengthening economy will also hold this terribly colorful company together. There are the wild liberals, the LGBTQ activists, and many of the old Jobbik voters who wave the Hungarian flag,” he says, noting that hanging the EU flag on parliament is announced alongside the same decision for the Székely flag to keep everyone happy.
Toroczkai says there is no way everyone will be kept happy in the long run, especially with the demands being made by Brussels, some of which have already been met, for example, with openly LGBTQ-friendly appointments made for the education minister and elsewhere in his government.
Another primary question is what Magyar will do regarding mandatory migrant quotas, something for which Hungary is presently incurring a €1 million daily penalty for defying. Magyar has promised he will stand up for Hungarian borders, even taking an even stronger stance and saying he will abolish the foreign workers used for multiple factory and service jobs under Fidesz.
Only time will tell, but Toroczkai remains skeptical.
“Our task will be to keep a sharp eye on the betrayals against the nation that Péter Magyar will commit in exchange for EU funds,” he told Mandiner, adding that the Tisza leader’s ego may have him thinking he can have his way with the European Commission, but he should not underestimate the “deep ideological foundations” of progressives.
“Mass migration and support for LGBTQ issues are all expectations that they will not give in to. Given the support, they don’t have to fear that Fidesz will return or that Our Homeland will call an early election within a year, so they don’t have to give in to Péter Magyar,” he said.
“Of course, there are many more tricks here, but if he gives in to these, it will be our job to confront him in the National Assembly with his broken promises,” Toroczkai noted.
For Mi Hazánk, aside from attempting to battle Tisza in a parliament it controls, the focus now is on attempting to win back voters who backed Tisza simply in the wave of “anything but Orbán” that ruled last month’s election. “A lot of votes, especially the votes of the young, were taken away by the will that Fidesz should definitely go and something else should come in its place,” he said.
“Now a globalist government is being formed in Hungary. Many people did not understand this message, or the feeling was stronger among young people that it doesn’t matter what happens, as long as it’s not Fidesz. In any case, we are present in parliament as sovereignists,” he continued, adding that Mi Hazánk will remain present for those who end up realizing that perhaps Hungary’s best interests are not being followed.
“A huge community in the Fidesz voting camp that feels orphaned, abandoned, but that is none of my business, it is Fidesz’s internal matter, how it can stand up after such a big defeat. Many will watch Mi Hazának with interest, and they may also leave Tisza disappointed – the big challenge of the coming years is whether we can grow into a major party.”
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