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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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 …https://t.co/1SA55p63AS
— EUNewsBot (@EUNewsBot) February 16, 2024
🗣One guy shout: NEVER AGAIN
[HUNGARIAN 🇭🇺 ANTI-ORBAN PROTEST]#FreeHungary pic.twitter.com/MJJ4Q3w2vr
The crowd answer: NEVER AGAIN— SzabadonMagyarul 🇬🇧🇭🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@SzabadonMagyar) February 16, 2024
Budapest, Hero Square, the protest will take off within 5 min
Fuck you Orban, fuck you Putin#freehungary#pedoFidesz pic.twitter.com/o88RVgVVr5— SzabadonMagyarul 🇬🇧🇭🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@SzabadonMagyar) February 16, 2024
Thousands of Hungarians took to the streets of Budapest as the crisis over a presidential pardon related to a pedophilia case threatens to escalate https://t.co/BD42jRdt9H
— Bloomberg (@business) February 16, 2024
In #Budapest the regular Friday protest against #Orbán and they seem to be getting bigger.
40-50,000 attend Heroes’ Square. On the way, many stopped outside #Russia‘s embassy to show what they think of the murder of Navalny. pic.twitter.com/ZADMxmQN6c— Tim White (@TWMCLtd) February 16, 2024