Orban: Economic success 'prerequisite' for conservative policy

Prime Minister Viktor Orban, addressing a conference on conservatism in Rome on Tuesday, said economic success was a prerequisite for conservative policy. Achieving economic success is the only way for nationally minded conservative and Christian democratic leaders to "survive", Orban told a podium discussion at the National Conservatism Conference. But if a conservative political leader makes a mistake and economic indicators fall as a result, the leader "is murdered the next morning", he added. The prime minister said the Hungarian economy has been growing at a rate of 4-5 percent in recent years, adding that the unemployment rate had fallen to 3 percent with the public debt also shrinking.