On Monday and Tuesday, Péter Magyar’s tour of the country continued in Baranya, which culminated in Pécs. A crowd of several thousand listened to the politician speaking from the platform of the pickup truck and answering questions from the audience.
Before the start of the movement, many people had already gathered on Búza Square. “I have no doubts now, it’s not a scam,” was one typical comment. “We love our country, we don’t want to leave, even though it’s a real possibility for us too,” said a female member of a couple in their early forties. “We knew the orange would rot from the inside, it seems the time has come,” said an older man. There were also a lot of young people, we also talked to 15-16 year olds, who are extremely knowledgeable about public issues, and they primarily mentioned “corruption that overwhelms everything” as Hungary’s biggest problem.
Péter Magyar – Photo: Ervin Gűth / Telex
The arrival of Péter Magyar was loudly greeted by the small crowd, which took a small detour along the city’s main pedestrian street to the main square. In the meantime, the vice-president of the Tisza Party answered the questions of the press, but many people stopped him to take a selfie. A few days ago, the politician announced the support of an association in Békéscsaba in the municipal election. In response to Telex’s question, he said that they had received hundreds of inquiries from local organizations, including Pécs, and that he and his colleagues were investigating who they could cooperate with. Organizations and candidates with similar values and no party political history can be considered. A day earlier, Komlón mentioned that he also had problems with the current opposition Pécs city administration. In this regard, he promised Telex specifics later in his speech.
In Széchenyi Square, the crowd grew to several thousand people, a political movement similar in size to Tuesday’s event in Pécs last time during protests against the Slave Law.
“This is not a media hack, as the propaganda claims,” Magyar said at the beginning of his speech, and he also mentioned his local ties. He then mentioned Pécs’ decline, problems, and underfunding, as well as how much more the government supports the economic development of Fidesz-led cities.
He brought up a single success story as an example, the University of Pécs, which the Fidesz circles, on the other hand, put their hands on. “In the event of becoming government, the Tisza Party would return the real control of PTE to the senate and university citizens,” the politician promised.
After his speech, he answered a wide variety of questions from the audience: among other things, he talked about the problems of foreign currency borrowers, the lack of ministries of education and health, and the eradication of government propaganda.
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