Supporters of Fidesz and the Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP) staged a demonstration outside Sándor Palace on Thursday to protest what organisers described as the “construction of a Tisza dictatorship” and the planned removal of President Tamás Sulyok.
Fidesz and KDNP held a protest in favour of President Sulyok
Speaking at the event, titled “Stop Tyranny”, former President János Áder said the constitutional amendment proposed by the Tisza government would amount to “the destruction of Hungary’s rule of law”.
Áder recalled the forced resignations of former Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy in 1947 and President Zoltán Tildy in 1948, both of whom were removed under pressure from the communist regime. He said he entered politics nearly four decades ago, took part in the Opposition Round Table negotiations and later became a member of Hungary’s first freely elected parliament to ensure that such events would never happen again.
Áder personally has a dispute with PM Péter Magyar
He said he had accepted the invitation to address the rally because democracy was under threat and, in his view, there was now another attempt to remove Hungary’s president in an unconstitutional manner.
Addressing a crowd that filled the area around Sándor Palace and the surrounding streets, Áder argued that the planned constitutional amendment would “destroy the Hungarian rule of law”, leading not to legal certainty but to anarchy. He warned that, if adopted, it would create a situation in which “anything could happen to anyone in Hungary at any time”.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Péter Magyar claimed that back in 2018, during an official trip to the United States, former president Áder used the publicly funded trip more like a family vacation rather than a diplomatic mission.
Other speakers at the demonstration included Fidesz MP Gábor Szűcs, Fidesz communications director Bertalan Havasi, influencers Elizabeth Tóth and István Szakács, and parish priest Zoltán Osztie.
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