Hungary is working to keep its sovereignty while building global cooperation, Miklós Szánthó, the head of the Center for Fundamental Rights, said in his address opening the Conservative Political Action Conference Hungary (CPAC) in Budapest. The conference aims to “make international cooperation of national forces, the nightmare of liberals, a reality”, Szánthó said. Organising the second CPAC conference in Budapest was a “pride and joy, and a great success of the whole Hungarian right-wing”, he said. “By birth, by history and mentality, Hungary is under the protection of God … Hungary is no country for woke men,” Szánthó said. Hungary’s government protects children’s right to their sexual identity at birth, “we protect children against gender propaganda”. Hungarians stand up for common sense and “natural truths of life … and we are looking for allies to stop the liberal coup against our future,” he said. “We are conservatives, right-wingers, populists and nationalists, and we shouldn’t fear these words,” he said.
Matt Schlapp, leader of the American Conservative Union (ACU), said the United States could only be successful if its people held on to religion and traditional values. The US today faces economic and cultural challenges, Schlapp said. “The problem when America is not on the right path is that we don’t just screw up our own country, we try to screw up a lot of other countries,” he added.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said it was universal and traditional values that could give people strength to withstand the crises that have shaken the world in recent years. The global order is changing and will never be the same again, he said, underscoring the need for global consolidation based on cooperation, which he said could bring about a new and just order. “What gives us this strength to be united? Notably, the traditional, supreme, eternal, universal values that determine our entire history and culture, as well as our everyday life,” the prime minister said. Garibashvili warned that “it is easy to control a rootless person”, adding that “in such a difficult time our main weapon and foundation is traditional Christian conservative family values.”