Speaking to a crowd estimated at over 50,000, he said it will not be enough to remove the government in 2014, as the present regime will have to be dismantled.

“I know I once said I am not a politician. I thought so then,” he said, adding that the past two years brought a “bitter awakening” for him as Hungary has again become a place where people must take to the streets to defend their rights.

He accused the government of systematically breaking the backbone of democracy “vertebra by vertebra”.

“If bad decisions by politicians destroy our country,” Bajnai said “it is not us who have to leave but bad politicians”.

A new political culture and a new political era are needed, he continued, as well as a constitutional guarantee that no politician be able to appropriate power in Hungary again.

Bajnai said 2014 will be a turning point, as the election could determine the future for another 25 years.

Bajnai concluded by declaring “Alone we would fall, but together we will win”.

Milla president Péter Juhász earlier announced that Bajnai’s Homeland and Progress Association had formed the Together for 2014 movement with Milla and the Solidarity Movement. This group will form a “new political centre,” Bajnai declared.

Earlier, Democratic Coalition president Ferenc Gyurcsány told a gathering of several hundred people that Bajnai should be the opposition candidate for prime minister in 2014.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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