Budapest. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Budapest on Saturday in support of a critic of the ruling prime minister, the ultranationalist Viktor Orban, who seeks to challenge.
The demonstration was called by lawyer Peter Magyar, who has shaken the political life of this European country in the wake of a child abuse scandal.
According to AFP journalists, nearly 100,000 people gathered in Budapest’s Kossuth Square, located in front of Parliament. “The Hungarians rise up!”, one could read on some posters.
“We will take back our country step by step and build a sovereign and modern Hungary stone by stone,” Magyar told the crowd.
The 43-year-old lawyer stated that he will soon announce the creation of a party and that it will run in the next European and local elections, scheduled for June.
Magyar is the ex-husband of Judit Varga, Orban’s former justice minister who was forced to leave public life after granting a presidential pardon to a person convicted of child crime.
The lawyer, long in the orbit of the ruling Fidesz party, parted ways with it and vowed to challenge Orban’s “power factory.”
In March, he released a recording that allegedly implicates a prominent minister in a high-profile corruption case, and called for the resignation of the attorney general.
A recent poll indicated that a party created by Magyar would obtain the support of between 11 and 15% of Hungarian voters.
Orban, who has multiplied measures to restrict press freedom and strengthen his control over the country, is facing the most serious political crisis of his 14 years in office.
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– 2024-04-14 18:42:26
