Anti-government protests continue

‘You can live without freedom, it’s just that life is so much worse,’ said independent MP Ákos Hadházy, who had previously labelled the spontaneous bridge blockade by Momentum supporters a bad idea. The protests against the government are about freedom, which is why the demonstrations must continue until the government withdraws the relevant law. He does not want to live in a country where the police ‘like their Chinese comrades’ monitor citizens’ every move with cameras and punish those who disagree with the government.

Hadházy expressed his disappointment that fewer people were demonstrating, but as the procession made its way across the bridge towards the castle and the presidential palace, the socialist daily newspaper ‘Népszava’ estimated the number of participants at 2,-2,500. The sea of flags included rainbow colours as well as the EU star banner, Hungarian flags, Momentum and DK party flags and the Antifa flag.

The demonstration continued in front of the Sándor Palace of President Tamás Sulyok. Several speakers used the term ‘techno-fascism’ and accused the ‘Fidesz regime’ of successively restricting democracy. MP Ákos Hadházy waited all night in front of the presidential residence, where he held a public ‘citizens’ consultation’. On Wednesday afternoon, the demonstrators plan to march in the opposite direction from the castle to the Erzsébet Bridge.