April 14th, 2009

Demonstrations planned around afternoon vote on new PM

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Speaker Katalin Szili on Friday rejected a request put forward from the Civil Unity Forum umbrella group to let its representatives address MPs in Tuesday’s debate on the constructive no-confidence motion. The group is organising a large protest to be held outside Parliament as MPs vote on Prime Minister designate Gordon Bajnai today.

Szili said the Forum’s views will be represented in the debate as there are MPs in Parliament who also favour its dissolution and early elections.

The demonstration is due to start at Kossuth tér at noon. A statement issued by the group, calling for support, said, in part: “We must show our strength and will because the nation’s future is at stake”.

More than ten other demonstrations around Kossuth tér have been announced in advance to the police. It is possible that police will classify the square as a zone of operations today, closing it to the public, and that a considerable police force will secure the immediate vicinity of Parliament.

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4 Comments

  1. Killer says:
    April 14, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    How’s this for a headline:
    “Hungary To Select Kaiser Chief Song As New National Anthem”

  2. JD says:
    April 14, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    “More than ten other demonstrations around Kossuth tér have been announced”
    Is one not enough?
    It’s no wonder nothing ever changes, by the time the Peoples Front of Judea and the Judean Peoples Front get their act together, the Judean’s Popular People’s Front will have given up and gone home.
    Splitters!

  3. Yeppers says:
    April 14, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    I think we have reached a point where creative destruction might prove beneficial. State default, hyperinflation and everything that comes with it might shake this country back to normalcy.
    Perhaps then someone can come along and fix this place…

  4. JD says:
    April 14, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    Interesting point Yeppers and I’m almost inclined to agree only that, in Hungary, they seem to get the “destruction” bit right, its just the “creative” part that seems to be the sticking point.