As well as zero tolerance of corruption, they demanded that the state respect the right to private property and refrain from nationalising the remaining private pension savings.

Behind a banner reading “We can not pay as much taxes as they steal” the crowd marched across the Chain Bridge to the presidential office in Buda Castle.

Speakers addressing the crowd asked whether tax office president Ildikó Vida has resigned yet, while participants and their signs spoke out against PMO Minister János Lázár, lying politicians, oligarchs and proposed restrictions on Sunday shopping.

Demonstrators held banners aloft such as “mafia government”, “fat, uninhibited Fidesz politicians. And what about the poor?” and chanted, among other slogans “Dirty Fidesz,” “Orbán out”, “democracy” and “Europe”.

As the demonstration ended near 8.30 p.m., organiser Gábor Vágó announced that another protest will be staged on December 16 and that the group will organise a protest against the Tax Office.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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