1956 – Jobbik: ‘No bargaining’ over independence or freedom

Torchlight march - Jobbik's Youth Division (Jobbik IT)

Budapest, October 23 (MTI) – The country’s independence and the freedom of its people are “not for sale”, Gábor Vona, head of the Jobbik party, said at a commemoration of the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising at Budapest’s Corvin Cinema, a shrine of the revolution, on Sunday.

In his address, Vona paid tribute to the revolutionaries, and urged that the list of communist-era informers should be made public. He also urged that perpetrators of violent acts during anti-government demonstrations on the same day in 2006 should be punished.

Gábor Vona, president of Jobbik, photo: MTI

On another subject, Vona said that all his party’s deputies had signed a declaration that they would not support the government’s constitutional amendment bill unless the government dropped its residency bond scheme.