- Title: Hungary's opposition rally attracts thousands in Budapest
- Date: 23rd October 2024
- Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (OCTOBER 19, 2024) (REUTERS) DEMONSTRATORS RAISING HANDS AND CHEERING STUDENTS, SELMA CLARYSSE AND LOU MOREIRA, DURING PROTEST (SOUNDBITE) (French) STUDENT, SELMA CLARYSSE, SAYING: "I think it's unacceptable (that the word "consent" is not currently included in penal law) because we can well see the consequences that has today. I think it's even an emergency
- Embargoed: 6th November 2024 17:41
- Keywords: 1956 uprising Hungarian politics Magyar voters Orban voters Peter Magyar Viktor Orban
- Location: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
- City: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
- Country: Hungary
- Topics: Europe,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA002404623102024RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE SEE EDIT 4043-HUNGARY-POLITICS/ORBAN FOR SPEECH AND RALLY OF PRIME MINISTER VIKTOR ORBAN
Over 10,000 supporters of ,the pro-EU Tisza party of Peter Magyar rallied in Budapest on Wednesday (October 23) on the anniversary of the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.
To supporters chanting "we are not afraid" Magyar told them that Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban had "no authority to betray the heritage of 1956, has no authority to serve Russian interests".
Orban alleged on Wednesday that the European Union executive was trying to overthrow his government and impose a "puppet" administration on Budapest, likening his protest to the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.
Magyar, 43, a former government insider, accused Orban of increasingly authoritarian and corrupt government and of running a propaganda machine through Fidesz's takeover of public media.
Orban, who has repeatedly clashed with EU leaders, faces the most serious threat to his 14-year rule as an opposition party led by a political newcomer has surged in the polls.
Hours before his speech, a new poll showed that Tisza had overtaken Orban's hard right, anti-immigrant Fidesz party among decided voters, the first time an opposition party managed to do so since 2010 when Orban rose to power.
The next national election is due in early 2026. Magyar said his party would start selecting its candidates soon.
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