Video: Protesters Turn Out To Counter Far-Right Demo In Budapest
- 8 Feb 2019 8:08 AM
MTI Photo: Mónus Márton
Source: Ruptly
MTI Photo: Mónus Márton
Source: Ruptly
The parliamentary group of the opposition Jobbik-Conservatives party on Monday held a protest against the import of foreign guest workers to Hungary in front of the prime minister’s office in Budapest’s Castle District.
The Momentum party assembly elected MEP Anna Donáth head of the party on Sunday. In her speech to the assembly, Donáth said Momentum was a “liberal, freedom-loving party with an unshakeable belief in human dignity.”
Opposition-leaning commentators accuse Fidesz of using far-right Mi Hazánk to change the electoral rules in Budapest in order to make it more difficult for the liberal Mayor to run the capital.
Civil organisations and teacher and student movements held a protest demanding freedom in education in Budapest.
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