Budapest protesters demand withdrawal of amendment to assembly law
Independent lawmaker Ákos Hadházy organised another demonstration to withdraw the amendment to the assembly law in Budapest on Tuesday.
At the protest at Ferenciek Square, Hadházy said the demonstrators who had gathered there wanted to live in a free country “and are willing to do something about it”. He said no government was immune to pressure, and results could be achieved “against any government.” He insisted that the reason for the amendment to the assembly law was not to ban the Pride march “but to ban the protests that will follow future election fraud and the rounding up of opposition politicians.”
Hadházy said the protests demanding the law’s withdrawal would be considered successful if the law had already been withdrawn. He also said he would prefer if there were thousands of people protesting, and announced another demonstration for next week. He said he could not guarantee that the protests would succeed, but vowed to do everything to make sure they did.
Hadházy called on the protesters to march to the headquarters of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in a show of solidarity with academics who he said were being blackmailed by the government. He said that the government was offering 80 billion forints (EUR 198m) for properties of the Hungarian Research Network which academics say is worth 130 billion, and the government was threatening to withhold their wage hikes unless they dropped their lawsuits in the matter.
The protesters crossed Elisabeth Bridge to the Buda side before circling back to the academy on the Pest side via Chain Bridge. The Budapest Police Headquarters (BRFK) said on police.hu that at 6pm some protesters unlawfully took to Elisabeth Bridge and blocked traffic for 20 minutes.
As we wrote a few days earlier, huge protest in Budapest, demonstrators tried to block Chain Bridge, police intervened – details and PHOTOS
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Interesting how they always “protest” on a workday.
Says it all.
And The smartest comment of the day goes to! 🥁🥁🥁 Steiner!
So you think work is just 9to5, Monday to Friday?
Yeah, it was like that in the 1960s.
Your comment says it all about you.
Steiner – which PSEUDONYM individual, of Fidesz Party Membership is this COMMENTATOR ?
DEFEATISH “tone” of ALL these PSEUDONYM – “clutching at straws” not being honest with them-selves – not looking nor accepting Victor Mihaly. Orban – has STRANGULATED our country, the respect and trust in Europe and globally in the name of Hungary, that Orban has SMASHED, especially in the GLOBAL World of DEMOCRACY – delivering us near to being Hungary – a Bankrupt country – these “Michael Steiner’s” – INIQUITOUS.
Hungary – what a LEGACY to Hungary, in his Down-fall, in the Spring of 2026, into History – the name Victor Mihaly. Orban will be RESPONSIBLE for.