Anti-government demonstration
“Hungary is in the most serious political, moral and legal crisis since the fall of communism,” said Péter Magyar, who once again led several thousand people onto the streets on Tuesday evening.
The ex-husband of former Justice Minister Judit Varga broke with the Orbán system after her resignation in connection with the pardon scandal: Magyar complained that the people really responsible cowardly ducked away and abused his ex-wife as a pawn. His first major rally on the March 15 holiday was more popular than the Prime Minister’s traditional speech in front of the National Museum.
Comet in the sky of opposition?
On Tuesday evening, the new comet in the opposition sky was only able to move about a fraction of the masses, but this demonstration was, so to speak, spontaneously called. Magyar made statements to prosecutors this morning to expose the corrupt system. After this “interrogation”, he called on his supporters to demonstrate for an independent investigation into the scandal involving the former president of the Chamber of Bailiffs. This protest in the evening was combined with a torchlight procession through the city center and a final demonstration in which almost 10,000 people demanded the resignation of the Orbán government.
“More and more people in our country have the feeling that enough is enough!” – Péter Magyar began his combative speech. Here it was not the left or the right who took to the streets, but a nation, a people that was fed up with the worst crisis of the post-reunification period. He cited as examples the cover-up of pedophilia crimes, the omnipresent corruption even in the highest government circles, and the Rogán propaganda financed by billions of taxpayers’ money as examples. He called on the public prosecutor’s office to summon members of the government and the Prime Minister personally to testify in view of the evidence he had presented. “We will not allow them to cover up the biggest legal and political scandal of the last thirty years!”
Tens of thousands of families defrauded
In order for an independent investigation to take place, Attorney General Péter Polt must first take his hat off. It is about a blatant scandal in which corrupt bailiffs, with the backing of political clients, put tens of thousands of Hungarian families on the streets and deprived them of any livelihood. At the same time, the Orbán family “manages assets worth 3,000 billion forints (around 7.5 billion euros), but people are apathetic and nothing can be shaken up anymore.
Nonetheless, Magyar expects “several hundred thousand” people at the next major rally on April 6 to oust the government.
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