The Office of the Government Spokesman, the Fidesz party faction and various governmental politicians have condemned to the greatest possible degree the statement made in Parliament by Jobbik MP Márton Gyöngyösi. According to the Office of the Government Spokesman, the Government takes the strictest possible action against every form of racism and anti-Semitic behaviour and does everything in order to ensure that malicious voices incompatible with European norms are driven back, adding that every citizen will be protected from such insults.

The Deputy State Secretary for International Communications Ferenc Kumin, who is on an official visit to the United States, made it clear that the Hungarian Government condemns these kinds of remarks most determinedly. The State Secretary added that he would emphasize this standpoint during his upcoming meetings.

At the conference on tackling hate speech organized by the Council of Europe in partnership with the EEA and Norway Grants, Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog emphasized that we determinedly reject the idea of grouping or stigmatizing people because of their origins. He said that the hate speech organized on a state basis during the communist dictatorship is still alive today, and so it is our task to act forcefully against it.

Reacting to the comments, State Secretary Zsolt Németh announced that a new, unacceptable and most determinedly condemnable racial theory has been articulated that is a dangerous thought that facilitated the division of the nation. It is contradictory to the protection of human rights and human dignity, he continued.

Regarding the remarks of Márton Gyöngyösi, the Fidesz party faction led by Antal Rogán declared that it is unacceptable adding that every political power must step up against statements like this, as could also have been done by the vice-chairman of the plenary session. According to Antal Rogán, the Fidesz party condemns every form of anti-Semitism and it is obliged to protect every Jewish and non-Jewish person.

(Prime Minister’s Office)