Hungary’s Democratic Network will hold a quiet, candlelight protest against hate speech in front of headquarters of the main opposition Fidesz party on Thursday, the group told MTI in a letter.
The protest, which will also mark the anniversary of Hungary’s Nazi takeover in 1944, was triggered by “racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic remarks made publicly by Fidesz politicians,” said the letter signed by Akos Komassy, a Socialist candidate for mayor of a Budapest district.
Oszkar Molnar, a Fidesz MP and mayor of a NE Hungary town, recently made statements about the Roma, gays and Jewish people which were widely seen as racist. Molnar told a local TV show recently: “[...] global capital — Jewish capital if you like — wants to devour the whole world, especially Hungary.” He also made claims that pregnant Roma women deliberately harmed their unborn babies to secure higher state benefits.
