Large crowd gathered at the anti-government demonstration in Budapest

Photo: MTI

Civil organisations and teacher and student movements held a protest demanding freedom in education in Budapest on Monday.

The protesters gathered in Heroes’ Square and also demanded higher wages for teachers before marching in streets around Andrassy Street and down to Oktogon.

The demonstrators waving national, European Union and Ukrainian flags stopped outside Kölcsey Ferenc High School, from which five teachers were forced to quit their jobs last September. Here, Bence Tóth related how he left public education after discovering that his colleagues had been sacked.

He insisted that the government was uninterested in finding a solution to problems afflicting public education, adding that Sándor Pintér, the minister of interior who is also responsible for education, had conceded that he did not understand the sector.

On the way to Oktogon, the marchers stopped in front of the Russian embassy building and tied ribbons in the national colours on the embassy fence.

Karácsony: ‘We won’t compromise on Hungary becoming a republic’

Addressing a demonstration on the anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 uprising in downtown Budapest on Monday, Gergely Karácsony, the city’s mayor, said: “We won’t compromise on our country one day becoming a republic, the common home of free and equal citizens.”

At the event held at Oktogon, Karácsony vowed to form an alliance of the opposition parties in Budapest for next year’s local elections.

“October 23 is the celebration of the republic, of the republic born out of the revolution of 1956, of the Third Hungarian Republic established on October 23, 1989, and of the Fourth Republic we carry in our hearts,” Karácsony said.

“Living in a republic means striving to treat each other well,” the mayor said, adding this was the kind of homeland the heroes of 1956 had wanted.

As we wrote before, the Tanítanék Movement was awarded EP’s European Citizens Prize, details HERE.

As we wrote today, Orbán: ‘Moscow a tragedy; Brussels bad contemporary parody’ – UPDATE

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5 Comments

Anonymous says:

23/10/2023 at 22:08

Karacsony’s Republic? But Hungary is a republic, or perhaps he thinks Orbán is the King of Hungary.
Michael Steiner says:

24/10/2023 at 07:22

“The demonstrators waving national, European Union and Ukrainian flags…” Well, that says it all. The only thing missing are portraits of their foreign paymasters. As for Mayo Greg’s statement that “We won’t compromise on our country one day becoming a republic, the common home of free and equal citizens,” Hungary IS a republic and everyone is free and equal before the law. What he means, of course, is turning Hungary into a postnational, post-democratic globalist statelet where men are women, kids are owned by the state, the place is flooded with menacing and violent illegal aliens that make life a misery for citizens, high taxes, and “green” edicts so we can’t afford to eat or heat our homes. Who the hell votes for these jokers?!?
FedUp says:

24/10/2023 at 08:53

@MichaelSteiner .. 100%. I agree with your comments on many of these articles, including this one. I wish there was a way we could connect as we need like minded people to stand together.
A30B enjoyer says:

24/10/2023 at 17:30

@Michael Steiner
Dude you’re an id10t
You stink of ruzzian trollbot from a mile away.
If Hungary doesn’t like it and it’s so bad in the EU/west, there’s the door
mariavontheresa says:

25/10/2023 at 22:13

In the US the teachers’ unions are incredibly powerful. They manipulated Garland, the American Attorney General, to call parents who took interest in their children’s education, terrorists. The result, over 50% of children have not manage to pass standard tests. That is what happens when the teachers are in control of education. The students that protested with the teachers should stop for a moment and think, their competition in the future is the hardworking Chinese students. Premium jobs will be held by Asian students, students that are more interested in learning instead of skipping school to support something that they do not understand.

Universities in the US are staffed with socialists professors who are more interested brain washing children instead of challenging them in an ever-changing world. These students were and are out protesting for Palestine supporting murderous Hamas. The result, company CEOs decided to withhold monetary support for universities and decided not to hire brainwashed graduates.

Hungarian students should determine to achieve a good education and build on this education to improve the Hungarian economy and the lives of the Hungarian people.