Protesters call for Viktor Orbán’s resignation amid paedophile scandal

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Source: MTI/Koszticsák Szilárd

On Wednesday evening at 6 PM, several hundred protesters gathered in Buda Castle, on the square in front of the Carmelite Monastery, to demand the resignation of Viktor Orbán and Antal Rogán, the head of the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office. The demonstration was announced by the Momentum Movement after the scandal involving the (former) President of the Republic Katalin Novák and former Justice Minister Judit Varga.

Demonstration against Orbán and Rogán

“The resignations of Katalin Novák and Judit Varga are just the beginning. The paedophile pardon case and the information leaked since then or shared by Judit Varga’s ex-husband are proof of the moral failure of the system. The ultimate culprit is Viktor Orbán, the absolute master of the system, and Antal Rogán, the propaganda minister of the system, who lives by mafia methods”, Momentum wrote in the Facebook event of the protest.

Before the demonstration, the organisers played excerpts from the interview with Péter Magyar, Judit Varga’s ex-husband, Telex reports. They repeated many times the parts about Rogán, his role in the system, how the communication machine he controls works, and how Magyar thinks he should “go” from public life.

Links to the Orbán family

The first speaker was András Fekete-Győr, MP of Momentum. He said, “Orbán’s regime has fallen into an ethical, moral and political crisis.” According to Fekete-Győr, there is a justified public outcry in Hungary, as those in power fear that the system will collapse on them and their vices will be exposed.

“That’s why Orbán is keeping quiet about the paedophile scandal, which has thousands of links to his family,”

he said.

According to Fekete-Győr, Orbán must clarify who gave the order to grant the pardon. He recalled that the lawyer of the Orbán family was the one who defended Endre K. “I wonder what the prime minister knows that makes him go into hiding. What kind of state does this to the children in its care?”, he asked, rhetorically.

The second speaker is Péter Juhász. Juhász called on Antal Rogán to think about the situation of children in state care and the victims of sexual crimes. At the end of his speech, Juhász called on Rogán to “resign and get out of public life”.

The importance of independent press

Ákos Hadházy, independent Member of Parliament for Zugló, addressed those who serve the system in some way, but are gnawing at their conscience. According to Hadházy, they should not wait for the system to collapse, because then they can look their children and grandchildren in the eye. He believes that now is the opportunity.

Hadházy said that in the past few days, even the Fidesz regime, which was thought to be unshakable, could be put under pressure. “It is important that this pressure was put on the regime by the remaining independent press,” he said.

Anna Donáth, the president of Momentum, said that she believes that the authorities are doing everything they can to prevent us from talking about what happened, about the pedophile crimes and how this system is saving anyone it cares about and pushing the vulnerable to the wayside. “And there is no accountability,” she said.

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