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Viktor Orbán said on Kossuth Radio on Sunday: “Anyway, everyone uses that difficult word to pronounce: Pfizer, I think you have to say that. But it is actually a Hungarian vaccine. A German professor is also involved in this, research or research management, but most Hungarians work in research or research management. With a bit of exaggeration, but we can say that it is a Hungarian vaccine, American money and Hungarian common sense. We can be proud of the scientist who is a woman in Kisújszállás, as far as I know.
Several opposition politicians, Tímea Szabó, Bernadett Szél and Anett Bősz, also criticized Orban for the tone in which he spoke about Katalin Karikó, who plays a key role in the development of mRNA vaccines against the coronavirus. They said that “it has everything and what Orbán and the entire government think about women and science separately and together.”
When asked by RTL Híradó why the Prime Minister mentioned BionTech’s Nobel Prize-winning Vice President in this way, Orbán’s press officer Bertalan Havasi replied: He called her woman because “however, he cannot call her sir.”
Linguist Erzsébet Barát, who spoke to the news, said that the term condemns a woman is “an older, simple woman who works in the sense when the speaker wants to perceive alienation or superiority.”
It was not the first time that Orbán had been involved in a situation in which he was accused of speaking disparagingly about a woman. When asked in 2017 about the removal of the ambassador to Washington, Réka Szemerkényi, all he answered was: “I don’t deal with women’s problems.” Responding to a journalist’s question a few days later, then-Minister János Lázár said that Orbán changed his mind in the morning, he was wrong, “because half the country is owned by women, we must address the issue of women.”
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