Blog Prime Minister PM Orbán at Tusványos: “The essence of illiberal democracy is the protection of Christian liberty” Jul 27, 2019 - Zoltán Kovács Liberals defined the terms so that democracy can only be liberal. However, according to Prime Minister Orbán, the requirement that Christian democracy must be liberal is not true. Their liberal internationalism can only succeed when it becomes universal. And they oppose what we are doing in Hungary because a true, working model of an illiberal state has come together, our own Christian democratic state.