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Tens of Thousands Rally at Megaconcert to Vote Out Hungary’s Orbán

  • Over 100,000 people gathered in Budapest for a seven-hour concert urging voters to replace Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government ahead of elections, featuring over 50 performers opposing his nationalist-populist government.
  • A 21 Research Center poll found that 65% of voters under 30 support opposition leader Péter Magyar and his Tisza party, while only 14% back Viktor Orbán, indicating a generational gap in political support.
  • Performers and attendees expressed frustration with Orbán's ties, economic stagnation, and corruption scandals, emphasizing a desire for political change and realignment with Europe.
  • The Civic Resistance Movement organized the event to highlight widespread dissatisfaction among young Hungarians and to signal that the era of impunity under Orbán's rule should end.
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The iconic Heroes Square of the Hungarian capital was black of the world on Friday. On stage, some 40 artists succeeded each other in calling to put an end to the regime in place "So, did I have a lot of bitchy friends (polyskak) around here?" On stage, artist Chandler B. grabs his microphone with an energetic gesture and harangues the crowd. An allusion to the phrase "the bugs survived the winter" pronounced by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to qu…

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Tens of thousands rally at megaconcert to vote out Hungary's Orbán

Two days before Hungary's elections, over 100,000 people gathered in Budapest for a concert urging citizens to vote out Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

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Tens of thousands of people filled Heroes' Square and adjacent boulevards in central Budapest on Friday to attend a massive seven-hour concert against the current regime of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. The concert was accompanied by vulgar jokes, sharp criticism of the ruling party and chants such as "Russians, go home!" in reference to Orbán's current foreign policy. Hungary holds parliamentary elections on Sunday.

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Budapest - Tens of thousands of people filled Heroes' Square and adjacent boulevards in central Budapest today to participate in a giant seven-hour concert directed against the current regime of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the height of the election campaign. According to polls, he could lose power in Sunday's parliamentary elections after 16 years at the head of the Hungarian government. Orbán held his penultimate election rally today in Szé…

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Tens of thousands of people were present at the end of the day at the "Grand System Dismantling concert", in Budapest, organized by an activist to answer the government party, which could lose the elections on Sunday.

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In Budapest, at 5:00 p.m., a concert began, as the organizers called it "for disturbing the system", in the city center, on Heroes' Square, on the eve of tomorrow's finals.

·Novi Beograd, Serbia
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Aktuality.sk broke the news in Bratislava Region, Slovakia on Friday, April 10, 2026.
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