We happily came to Tusványos in 2024 with yet another book launch! Alejandro Pena Esclusa’s book on the Electoral Fraud of the Sao Paulo Forum was published in Hungarian in cooperation with the Center for Fundamental Rights.

The form of democracy currently known in Latin America will soon cease to exist, as a group of coup plotters, former resistance fighters, drug traffickers, and bribed individuals gathered around the São Paulo Forum and the Puebla Group have developed a sophisticated method that allows them to gain power through fraud. Alejandro Peña Esclusa’s study details these mechanisms and explains how they work. He presents an analysis that no other researcher has yet conducted, as he uncovers the connections between the frauds committed by the political left, not only in individual countries but throughout the entire region. Peña Esclusa knows the São Paulo Forum like few others, having conducted in-depth research on the subject for 28 years. He has paid a high price for this, facing persecution, imprisonment, and exile.

We also had the pleasure to welcome international speakers such as Julie Hartman from the United States, Marwan Abdallah from Lebanon and Abshir Ferro from Somalia. Tusványos is an excellent place for having discussions on current international affairs, meet new and old friends and simply enjoy!

What chances and oppurtunities does Christian Democracy has in Europe and how can Christian democracy grow in Europe if the number of Christians practising their faith, and with them Christian politicians, is dwindling?

Among other things, this was discussed by Gudrun Kugler, jurist, theologian, member of the Austrian People’s Party, Member of the Austrian Parliament since 2017, and and Lőrinc Nacsa, politician, member of the KDNP, Member of Parliament, Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 15th of September, 2023 in a panel discussion organized jointly with the Szent István Institute at Scruton’s Zoltán Street Café.

Even after Tusványos, there is no end to the number of presentations of the book The Sao Paulo Forum’s Cultural Warfare, written by Alejandro Peña Esclusa published in Hungarian by the Christian Democratic Institute.

On July 28, 2023, in Esztergom, during the MCC Feszt, the Latin American author discussed the book and the Sao Paulo Forum, and its spread in the Americas, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean with Álvaro Peñas López, editor of deliberatio.eu, and Jorge González-Gallarza, guest lecturer at the MCC.

The discussion and interest were not dampened even by the inclement weather, which was followed by the book signing.

The Christian Democratic Institute, in close cooperation with the Hungarian Association of the Order of Malta, organized a diplomatic charity initiative with H.E. Ms. Joanna Azzi, Ambassador of Lebanon, to visit the Maltese elderly care home in Páty on June 12.

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The Center for Fundamental Rights hosted a book launch on June 8 for The Curse of Popularity, which is a book that the Christian Democratic Institute and the Foundation for a Civic Hungary also helped bring to fruition.

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