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"Mr President, President of the Commission, Prime Minister, let me reassure you straight away that I am not a leftist. I am a liberal and a European democrat. I am not part of any plot or attempt at subversion. Now you know!
However, I will say that the policy you are conducting in your country, Prime Minister, will be fatal for democracy. The laws you have passed contradict European values, and the Treaties. Your concept of democracy is nothing more than mathematics. This can only lead to something akin to what history calls the ‘tyranny of the majority’, which of course is a perverse approach to democracy.
You are threatening the independence of the media, the judiciary, the police and the central bank, and threatening the protection of privacy. You are establishing a policy of fear among citizens. In practice, you are using your mathematical majority to dissuade people from exercising their right to freedom of opinion. That is what you are doing in reality. All of this is incompatible with European values, and needless to say it is a serious deviation.
Lastly, I want to tell you what I find most troubling in this debate, and I say it with great sympathy and respect for the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) (PPE): it is your deafening silence and complicity with respect to Mr Orbán, my PPE friends. You are in the best position to make him see reason."@en1
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