PHOTOS: Masses of people protested against PM Orbán’s new “spring clean-up” bill in Budapest
University students staged a demonstration against the passage of a bill concerning transparency in public life, in front of Parliament in Budapest late on Sunday.
Veronika Móra, the head of the Ökotárs Foundation, said the bill was aimed to “ensure that only one voice is heard: that of the government”. “It is aimed to ensure that there is no diversity, there is no political debate, there is no press just propaganda, and there should be no citizens with their own thoughts or opinion,” she said.
Actor Tamás Lengyel said he wanted to live in a country “where teachers don’t need to take second jobs and where a doctor does not go to Austria for a better living, and where health workers, policemen and fire fighters are appreciated and where it is not party stalwarts that made decisions over theatres.”
Student activist Lili Pankotai said the country should be built on a love of the homeland “that does not ostracise you if you have a different opinion, a country in which the press is free and so are the people”.
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