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Orbán’s challenger Magyar calls for accountability at Budapest protest after government’s child protection failures
Thousands gathered in central Budapest on a weekday afternoon as an opposition-led march moved from Deák Square to the Sándor Palace, where the leader of the Tisza Party, Péter Magyar delivered a powerful speech focused on the failures of Hungary’s child protection system.
Speaking after 6 PM, Magyar framed the demonstration not as a political rally, but as a moral stand for abused and neglected children living in state care.
Protesting against abusing children
Addressing the crowd, Péter Magyar thanked those who had attended in solidarity with vulnerable children, including adults who themselves grew up within the child protection system. He stressed that the event was not about party politics or campaigning, but about confronting the reality faced by thousands of children entrusted to the Hungarian state.
Magyar spoke in a personal tone, introducing himself not as a politician, but as a 44-year-old father of three and a former supporter of the governing Fidesz party. He said his close knowledge of those in power made their silence over recent revelations particularly painful. According to Magyar, the government has failed to respond adequately to reports of widespread abuse within state-run institutions, writes 24.hu.
Opposition leader says the government let these things happen
He accused Hungary’s leadership of allowing children to be beaten, humiliated, sexually abused, intimidated, locked away and even starved in places that should guarantee their safety. Referring to previously undisclosed official documents, Péter Magyar questioned why such acts were allowed to occur openly, sometimes even in front of surveillance cameras, without meaningful consequences.
Magyar recalled that nearly two years ago, when a controversial presidential pardon case emerged, he felt that remaining silent was no longer possible. He claimed that while the government initially promised reforms, it later became clear that those in power had consistently sided with perpetrators rather than victims. In his words, “nothing has changed” between well-known abuse cases, and he declared that the current political system had reached its end.
“Family Friendly” Fidesz has completely failed in its’ duty to protect children. No excuses. You are the government. Your job is to regulate and inspect and if you find abuse your job is to stop it immediate.y. What is absolutely sickening is that this has been going on for years and Fidesz did nothing. Meanwhile Deputy PM “Zsolti bacsi” Semjen has been giving state awards to paedophle abusers. Disgusting Pedofidesz.
Yes, Dear Larry – this is a sad failure of Fidesz, though it does not begin to compare with the child-trafficking industry we have going on in the U.S.A., or, worse, how the American Catholic Bishops are involved in this.
“What about ism” is the only thing left when you don’t have a leg to stand on. No excuses! Fidesz bears full responsibility for what goes on in Hungary.
“Orbán’s challenger Magyar calls for accountability at Budapest protest after government’s child protection failures…”
This tactic will do nothing to improve his performance in areas outside of Budapest.
His best shot is to do what I doubt he can do – go out to the woods and talk to the concerns of country people, and, to do that, class warfare and decrying corruption will not do.
To win, Magyar has to do better than decry Fidesz’s faults. Hungarians already know this.
To win, he needs to show how he would protect Hungary better than Orbán, and if his answer to this scenario is that he is going to turn Hungary over to the EU, for more funds, country people will not give him the extra votes he needs to win.
After his Turkish conference, I update the election odds to 7.5-5 in favour of Orbán.
Orbán Viktor continues to find new ways to look better, while Magyar Peter simply keeps blowing the same horn.
Pretty rich coming from a guy who’d sign us up to the E.U.’s illegal alien diktat the day he assumes office.
With tens of thousands of illiterate, violent third-world trash roaming the streets of Hungary, our kids will be getting violated, harassed, raped, and stabbed up and down the country by the hundreds.
“With tens of thousands of illiterate, violent third-world trash roaming the streets of Hungary, our kids will be getting violated, harassed, raped, and stabbed up and down the country by the hundreds..”
And that is exactly why, Dear Michael, that Magyar will not win this election.
No,in the end, Magyar will not be able to pick up enough rural & smalltown votes to win – because, though they may agree with a lot of his economic and corruption points, they have to much common sense (something too many modern big-city folk lack) to think that infrastructure improvement is worth living in an unending violent chaos.
Come on Mouton, same mistakes????
You dont learn the lesson?
Pretty rich coming from a person defending the regime that released hundreds of convicted people smugglers so that they can continue to smuggle unwanted people into Hungary.
Same repeatative bullshit Steiner!!!
Try to improve a bit at six in the morning?
57% of Hungarians trust the EU but only 41% trust the Fidesz government. Looks like you are part of the minority. Fidesz is going down, down, down.
https://telex.hu/english/2025/12/12/eurobarometer-trust-in-the-eu-has-improved-more-in-hungary-than-in-any-other-member-state
Do you not know who finances ‘Telex.hu’, Dear Larry?
Surely you are not so easy to dupe?
Surely not!