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Thousands Of Hungarian Opposition Supporters Rally; PM Orban Vows Crackdown On Media

  • More than 50,000 Hungarians rallied in Budapest to protest Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his 15-year rule.
  • The rally occurred after Orban's March 15 speech where he pledged to crack down on politicians and journalists receiving foreign funding and ruled out European Union membership for Ukraine.
  • Peter Magyar, the leader of the surging Tisza party and a former Orban ally, vowed to end Orban's rule and release a survey to hear the "voice of the nation".
  • Orban, marking the country's national day, vowed to eliminate a "shadow army" of non-governmental organizations, journalists, and politicians allegedly paid by the United States and Brussels, stating, 'We will eliminate the whole shadow army.'
  • Orban's Fidesz party has proposed constitutional changes to permit the expulsion of dual citizens deemed a threat to Hungary's sovereignty, while Magyar stated that those "who cheat on their own nation should end up in the dustbin of history.
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Fidesz and Tisza are in campaign mode, and the Prime Minister is promising a tougher attack on his critics than ever before. Zoltán Lakner analyzes the most important public events of the past period live on Telex.

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In 2025, a politically divided country celebrated March 15. Neither the Tisza Party nor the Fidesz sympathizers want to think about what will happen if they do not win the 2026 election. Orbán started inciting more harshly than ever, and Péter Magyar invented his own form of referendum. A major report on March 15.

·Hungary
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Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the Hungarian capital Budapest on Saturday at the invitation of the opposition to express their opposition to authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has vowed new steps to crack down on independent media and NGOs

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Peter Magyar, a former member of the government, launched his movement a year ago, and his Tisza party - named after Hungary's second largest river - is beating Fidesz, Prime Minister Orban's party, in most polls, a year before the 2026 election and as the economy struggles. Those who deceive their own nation should end up in the dustbin of history,” Magyar told more than 50,000 supporters. “Our time has come,” he said, announcing that Tisza wou…

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L'Informateur. broke the news in on Friday, March 14, 2025.
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