Speaking at a demonstration demanding the withdrawal of an amendment to the assembly law and protesting the bill on the transparency of public life, Hadhazy said this "huge success" belonged to those "who refused to believe that it’s impossible to achieve any result against this government and that it’s pointless … to defend so-called symbolic things like freedom and what’s left of democracy".

"Yesterday we got closer to a regime change, and the crowd got the powers that be to back down, to look ridiculous and become uncertain," he said.

Hadhazy said real change required "masses of people to realise their strength and that if they all move in the same direction then there’s no risk … and every government can be made to back down".

But he said the opposition "can’t enjoy the moments of success for too long" because they had "work to do", since the bill on the transparency of public life has not been withdrawn. 

"If this bill had been withdrawn, we still wouldn’t be talking about a real democracy that has fair elections," he said. If the bill were to be withdrawn, he added, "we’d still only be going back to the state democracy was in back in February".

Hadhazy insisted that "just because the powers that be are now uncertain the threat of election-rigging or very severe steps has not gone away." He also announced that next week’s demonstration would likely be held on Saturday.

After the demonstration, Hadhazy asked the protesters to walk to the Buda Castle district, to the new office of Antal Rogan, the head of the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office in protest against "anti-Ukraine propaganda" and the fact that he had yet to receive a reply to a letter in which he had requested permission to inspect the votes cast in the Vote 2025 survey and the process of how they were counted.

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