Lili Pankotai, 18, put himself on the support of the Hungarian Prime Minister by declaring a text during an important demonstration in Budapest. She expressed all the anger of the youth against an education system locked by power.
by Jean-Baptiste Chastand (Budapest, Special Envoy)
Could she find a better title to her text? Coming. Like the one she and the thousands of high school students who have been going out for weeks in the streets of Hungary against the nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban dream of embodying. “Whether you believe it or not/I am and we are the present/as well as this damn future,” chants Lili Pankotai, 18, in the slam which made him famous after being declaimed to the gallery of One of the most imposing demonstrations of the movement that is currently shaking the country to claim more freedom in the education system.
It was in Budapest, on October 23, on the occasion of the commemoration of the anti-eoviet insurrection of 1956, transformed that day into a vast protest in order to support professors brutally dismissed by the power to have strike . Pronounced with determination, these few verses read on his mobile phone summarize all the drifts of the Prime Minister who has directed Hungary with an iron fist since 2010: “Twelve years of friendship with Putin could go to the trash/But the prices of Energy are greater than Europe “; “It hurts me to see that the young people of today/who fight for themselves and their teachers/that they are said to be fucking liberals”; “You think/that you can erase the thought/my ass” …
This now cult text, she wrote it “in an hour”, one evening last March, under the stroke of the rage, coming back from the school, she says in early December, in a cafe in a cafe from Budapest. After the reaction of her establishment in southern Hungary, where she was internal, she preferred to move to the capital. In the aftermath of the speech, the principal publicly dissociated himself from his student. “We reject in the strongest terms all the content of [this slam] which is incompatible with Christian values,” posted on Facebook the principal of this Catholic private high school. Feeling “pushed to leave”, the teenager with long blond hair is now inscribed in a more progressive establishment.
target of multiple attacks
In her text, Lili certainly scratched this “conservative Christian” high school, “Dad is a man, mom is a woman”, who sought to faithfully instill in him the homophobic messages of power. But what has obviously ulcerated the system is that a young woman dares to attack Viktor Orban by employing a raw familiarity, in accordance with the codes of slam, this art of declared and committed poetry. “Child soldier of the left”, “Greta Thunberg Hungarian” [it is not a compliment among the Magyars], who “deserves two big slaps” … The many media in the hands of power were unleashed against this young girl who n ‘Not even his baccalaureate.
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