The Hungarian Prime Minister brought down tens of thousands of supporters in the capital, officially to commemorate the 1956 Anti-Soviet insurrection. For the first time since 2010, he will face, to the legislative of April 2022, to an opposition united.
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“Brussels = dictatorship.” It’s behind this sign written in English than tens of thousands of Viktor Orban supporters parade, Saturday, October 23, in the heart of Budapest. Officially intended to commemorate the 1956 Anti-Soviet insurrection, this gigantic rally was intended to launch the campaign of the Hungarian National Prime Minister for the legislative of April 2022. At the age of 58, the Leader of Government Magyar hopes to win a fourth term in a row at the head of this central European country with 9.8 million inhabitants
But these are tightened as ever faced with a united opposition for the first time since 2010, that Mr. Orban explicitly accused of being manipulated from outside. “We will win” Face “in Brussels, Washington and the media directed from abroad,” said Orban in front of a compact crowd, brought from all over the country by busy bus, as well as Italian and Polish nationalist activists. Very vocal, these have dissonated in a Hungarian audience if not rather old and obedient, and which paradeed in a quasi-silence by brandishing a tide of Hungarian flags and signs attacking the European Union (EU) and the left.
“We do not want any change because Orban safeguards the nation and protects families”, summarizes Tibor Tar, retired 72, who carries a sign distributed by the organizers – an NGO close to power. “We do not want Brussels to dictate what to do”, “said his comrade, Istvan, faithfully repeating the Fidesz line, Mr. Orban’s party. Wrapped in a Hungarian flag, margit Talis, 74, says, her admiration for “anti-LGBT values” of Mr. Orban, but she admits, however, “also afraid” that the opposition can win.
Brussels and the “Brezhnev doctrine”
For the first time in twelve years, six left-wing parties from the far-right training have formed an alliance for these legislation where the voting system promotes the party reached. Following a primary gathering more than 600 000 voters, an outsider, the Mayor of Province Peter Marki-Zay, 49, was elected Sunday, October 17 as his unique candidate. Coming from no party, the latter is defined as “conservative and Christian”, while being firmly “proeuropean”, with the big difference of Mr. Orban.
Saturday, the nationalist prime minister did not pronounce once the name of his new opponent during his speech, but he explicitly accused him of being manipulated by the left and to “beat to be the Best representative of Brussels and Soros “, this American billionaire of Hungarian origin become the black beast of power. Gold “Brussels behaves with us and the Polish as enemies,” lash M. Orban, with reference to the legal battle of the European institutions around the multiple attacks on the rule of law observed in both countries. A policy that it even compared to the “doctrine bremyve”, of the name of the Soviet Policy of Intervention in the former Socialist Republics.
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