Speakers called on the demonstrators to join forces, organise themselves and create a new political system.

High school teacher Emília Nagy staged an impromptu “national consultation” on education on Kossuth tér, starting with the question “Do you want the government to take another Ft 100 billion out of education?”

Tax fraud whistleblower András Horváth advocated action against corruption, saying that tax officials are deleting records that prove tax fraud and that there are other scandals within the tax authority NAV that prosecutors have not acted on.

Many in the crowd carried or wore the flags of Hungary, the EU, the US and Norway, and held aloft banners opposing the internet tax, corruption, the government’s foreign policy and Orbán.

As the protest ended, some demonstrators attempted to break through the line of police at the entrance to Parliament, but were pushed back.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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