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Orban Challenger Renews Calls for Change at Rally
A challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban renewed his calls for change today, leading a protest of several thousand people to demand greater child protection and the resignation of the government.
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Mundo Hungria
Protesters gathered outside the Interior Ministry in Budapest and called on its chief, Sándor Pintér, to resign over what they see as his failure to prevent child sex abuse in state care, a crime that has convulsed Hungarian politics in recent months.
Péter Márki-Zay, a 43-year-old lawyer who has emerged as a new voice of opposition to Hungary’s right-wing government, seized on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s self-styled image as a defender of families and traditional values to demand genuine reforms aimed at the well-being of children.
“We have a government that calls itself a friend of families. It is a government that wants to be Christian. A government that lies about being for peace,” Márki-Zay told the crowd.
“The truth is the opposite. They lie from morning till night, they lie as much as they can,” he added.
The demonstration was the latest in a series of large anti-government protests that Márki-Zay has organized in recent weeks and comes as the political newcomer campaigns for the European Parliament elections in June with his new party, Together (TISZA).
He called on Orbán and his government to resign and pitched himself as a third option for Hungarians disillusioned with Orbán’s 14 years in power and with the fragmented and ineffective Hungarian opposition parties.
A former member of Orbán’s Fidesz party and the ex-husband of Orbán ally and former justice minister Judit Varga, Márki-Zay rose to prominence when he publicly accused the government of corruption and cronyism following a child sex abuse scandal that led to the resignations in February of the president and the justice minister.
The scandal erupted after it emerged that the former president, Katalin Novák, had granted a presidential pardon to a man convicted of trying to cover up the sexual abuse of children at a rural youth camp.
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