Tens Of Thousands Protest Hungary’s Viktor Orban

Reuters reports:

Tens of thousands of Hungarians protested in Budapest on Friday at the biggest rally against Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government for years, after a sex-abuse case pardon by President Katalin Novak caused public uproar and led to her resignation.

Conservative Orban, who has been in power since 2010, has sought to defuse the week-old scandal that brought down two of his key political allies, the president and former justice minister Judit Varga, but it has continued to dominate domestic media.

The motives behind the pardoning of a man who helped cover up sexual abuse in a children’s home, that led to the resignation of the president, remain unclear. Orban’s ruling Fidesz party tried to win back the narrative, saying mistakes on its side had consequences unlike those made by the opposition.

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