PHOTOS: Péter Magyar’s demonstration in Budapest – Hundreds of thousands protest against Orbán cabinet
Péter Magyar, the vice-president of the current strongest opposition party Tisza Party (Tisztelet és Szabadság Párt), has organised a campaign-closing rally on Heroes’ Square in Budapest on Saturday afternoon at 2 PM. One day before the European Parliament elections, Magyar managed to mobilise a huge crowd.
Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party (Tisztelet és Szabadság Párt, eng. Respect and Freedom Party) became the second-strongest party and the strongest opposition party in Hungary in less than 3 months.
“We came here because we can’t fit anywhere else”
Magyar started his speech today by saying “We came here [Heroes’ Square – ed.] today because we can’t fit anywhere else”. “Who would have thought in February, only four months have passed and since then the sea, the sea of nations, has risen,” he said, quoting a poem by Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi titled Föltámadott a tenger (The whole sea has revolted).
“No sane person wants war in Hungary”
As the Orbán cabinet is fond of saying, anyone who does not vote for Fidesz is pro-war. This is what Péter Magyar wanted to refute by saying, for the umpteenth time, that “no sane person wants war in Hungary”. “Everybody wants peace in Hungary,” he said.
According to him, Tisza is the party of real peace, unlike Fidesz, it does not build tank, arms and ammunition factories. Tisza does not support the reintroduction of conscription, Magyar says, and would even prevent Fidesz from reintroducing it. “Those who vote for Tisza vote for peace.”
“If you want it, we will abolish the power of the privileged”
“If you want it so, Hungary will once again be a country of justice, honour and law. If you want it to be, we will abolish the power of the privileged,” he said.
The crowd then chanted: “we are not afraid!”
Péter Magyar thanked the Hungarian government
HUF 2.5 billion of public money has been spent to discredit us, said Magyar, who thanked the government for this, because he says there are more people present than ever before.
“Thank you to the government for the thousands of hateful and lying billboards and videos. Thank you, you have helped a lot!”
“The fact that I am standing here today is thanks to you,” Magyar told the crowd. “I’m a different person at the end of the journey, three months ago I didn’t know exactly what road I was on.” “You give me hope, we give each other hope.”
“Whatever the outcome of the vote, we have overcome apathy”
Whatever the outcome of the vote, we have overcome apathy and forged an alliance between Hungarians and Hungarians.
Politics can be beautiful, useful and just
They will build a country where it doesn’t matter whether you were born in Buda or in a shanty town in Borsod, Magyar promises. The Tisza Party wants a country where modesty, justice and love reign. They will work for a country where “it is not relationships that count, but diligence and hard work”.
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