Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said: "Yesterday we were heretics, today we are the mainstream."
"Yesterday they said we were the past, but today everyone can see that we are the future," PM Orbán said in his address to a summit of the Patriots for Europe (PfE) grouping in Madrid on Saturday.
PM Orbán said the "Trump tornado" had changed the world in just a few weeks. "We, Patriots are the ones writing the future in America, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria and Hungary", he said, adding that "up next is Czechia".
"We are many, we are big and we are strong," PM Orbán said.
The prime minister said Hungary today was "the laboratory of conservative politics", and that his government had been "building the free, conservative and Christian Hungary for 15 years".
"We’re the ones who protected ourselves from migration," Orban said, underlining that not a single illegal migrant was able to enter Europe through Hungary. "Illegal entry is a crime," he said, adding that because there was "no compromise when it comes to migration, the number of migrants in Hungary is zero".
"We support our own Hungarian families instead of immigrants," PM Orbán said. The prime minister also said his government has banned "gender propaganda" from schools and has written into the constitution that all state bodies are required to defend Christian culture and that the mother is a woman and the father a man.
Listing his government’s accomplishments, PM Orbán said they had eliminated unemployment, and the corporate tax rate was the lowest in Europe.
"The globalist elite, of course, hates us because of this," he said, adding that "the Brussels bureaucrats, the American Democrats and the Soros network have launched a manhunt against us". "They’re hunting us because we defended our country."
He noted that when Hungarians "turned against the progressive global elite" 15 years ago, such a move had been said to be "madness, impossible and political suicide".
"But we didn’t listen to that, we succeeded, and Hungary is living proof that it’s possible and that it can be done," PM Orbán said.
He said US President Donald Trump would also succeed, as would Spain if the people backed VOX leader Santiago Abascal, who also heads the Patriots for Europe.
PM Orbán blamed Brussels for Europe’s economic slowdown, for "our money" being given to Ukraine for "a hopeless war", and for being the reason why Europe was being "flooded by migrants".
Referring to the "Soros plan", PM Orbán said the European "illegal migrant invasion" and "population replacement" were not conspiracy theories "but practice itself". He said US billionaire George Soros had declared in 2015 that Europe needed to take in one million migrants a year, and the continent has seen 9 million illegal migrants enter over the last nine years.
"Today the progressive global elite is simply robbing Europe from the people," PM Orbán said. He cited the myth of the god Jupiter disguising himself as a bull to seduce the princess Europa, adding that the people of Spain "know how to handle raging bulls", and called Abascal "the bravest bullfighter in politics".
"Santiago, let’s tame this raging bull together," PM Orbán said to Abascal.
PM Orbán began his speech by noting that he had served 19 years as prime minister and spent 16 years as the head of the opposition, and he understood the path from opposition to government.
"And the name of this road is suffering," he said. "The name of this road is pain." Those who wanted to get into government had to serve their nation, he said. "Meanwhile, you are under a constant and brutal attack," he said, adding that Abascal and VOX had "suffered enough" and it was time for them to get into power. "Santiago, I understand you and I’m with you."
Turning to the relationship between Spain and Hungary, PM Orbán noted that in the 13th century, the daughter of Hungary’s king married James I of Aragon, and the Hungarian guard that went with her fought in the Reconquista. He also noted that Spain was the first to support the Hungarian revolutionaries of 1956 in their anti-communist uprising.