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Daily News Hungary Daily News Hungary · 18/07/2022
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Protesters block Margaret Bridge — UPDATED, PHOTOS

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Demonstrators protesting changes to the Itemised Tax for Small Businesses (kata) and caps on household energy bills blocked Margaret Bridge in Budapest on Monday morning.

The few hundred demonstrators, most of whom arrived by bicycle or scooter wearing the shirts and backpacks of food delivery companies, first filled only the outside lanes of the bridge before blocking the entire bridge from the Pest side near Jaszai Mari Square by 8am, MTI’s correspondent reported.

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Budapest police (BRFK) said on their website that traffic going onto Margaret Bridge would be diverted.

Cars that were already on the bridge before it was fully blocked by the protesters were able to turn around on the tram tracks. The sidewalks and bicycle paths on the bridge remain accessible.

Budapest police said on its website police.hu at 9am that the event announced to police in advance had ended while the demonstrators were still blocking the entire bridge. Police afterwards instructed the demonstrators to clear the tram tracks and the road. A group of protesters meanwhile left the bridge in the direction of Nyugati Railway Station and the Oktogon junction on the Pest side.

MTI’s onsite correspondent said that groups of police officers moved onto the bridge from both ends and cleared demonstrators from the road and herded them onto the sidewalk. They also pulled some protesters from the crowd.

Budapest police said at 11am that vehicle traffic had resumed on the bridge in both directions.

They later said that “police took into custody five people who had refused to move to the sidewalk despite repeated calls to do so”.

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  1. Freedom of People under Democracy : says:
    18/07/2022 at 10:18

    “It ain’t OVER yet”.
    “This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end,but it is perhaps, the end of the beginning”.
    Quote of Winston. Spencer. Churchill – that is appropriate – for what Citizens using their Rights granted them under DEMOCRACY – to in an ORDERLY fashion DEMONSTRATE.
    Democracy – is Dialogue.
    In the CORE of Democracy – their is NO provision, for use of a Dictatorial styled form of a Government, elected through a Democratic process, that Governs & Rules – as is the CASE in Hungary, by this Orban led Government, in a DICTATORIAL system,agenda “creed” & “dogma” – PROCESS.

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