All major parties in Hungary will hold a campaign rally on the afternoon of the national holiday of March 15 in the centre of Budapest, the organisers told MTI on Tuesday.
March 15 marks the commemoration of Hungary’s 1848 anti-Habsburg freedom fight and revolution, and it has seen anti-government demonstrations over the past few years.
The main opposition Fidesz party (and its election ally Christian Democrats) are organising a campaign-opening rally by the foot of Erzsebet bridge, on the Pest side, near the Astoria junction, a Fidesz official Zsolt Nyitrai told reporters on Tuesday. He said Fidesz leader Viktor Orban will address the event, which is planned to be “low-budget and solemn”.
The governing Socialists will meet by Pilvax Cafe – one of the sites from where the revolution broke out – just a few blocks from the Fidesz rally. The party’s prime minister candidate Attila Mesterhazy will be among speakers.
The radical nationalist Jobbik party’s gathering is planned on Deak square, also in the city centre and not far from the other two events. Spokeswoman Dora Duro told MTI that party leader Gabor Vona and MEP Krisztina Morvai will both address the Jobbik rally.
The small conservative Democratic Forum told MTI it is not planning a street-event on March 15. The party’s supporters will mark the holiday on March 13 in the Buda Castle and Democratic Forum MPs will lay wreaths by a freedom-fighter’s memorial on March 15.
Budapest Mayor Gabor Demszky is scheduled to give a speech by Petofi square in the afternoon.
With all the parks, squares, arenas, large car parks and other open spaces why the bloody hell does King Viktor have to have his bloody speeches in the middle of the Astoria on Ráckoczi út. This sad attention seeking only causes distruption to many more people than actually turn up to the rally (by closing a major road in the centre of the city), despite the numbers they always claim were there, so he does not need actually need this space anyway. SO VIKTOR BUGGER OFF TO A CAR PARK ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY PLEASE !!
Professor Penfield reported that, its purest representative is found in the Hungarian people of Central Europe and he added in his final report that this very same gene can be found also on five scattered points of the globe. The consequence of this finding – which ruined the hoped-for expectations of the pro-Semitic Rockefeller Foundation – was the immediate cancellation of the funding, and, banning the publication of the report. The research team, of course, was disbanded. The report did not see the light of day.
Why don’t these political animals come down to Lake Balaton. Plenty of empty spaces..and hotels.
Fresh air and rippling waves, white swans,
quacking ducks,boat rides,wine, roses, cycle tracks, thermal spas etc etc.
They need not bother the residents of Budapest who are sick of the sight of them, anyway!
So come on Vicki and the rest – make your way to Balaton in the breeze and bring some much-needed business to the resort that the communists once favoured so much in the swinging sixties.
Professor Penfield reported that, its purest representative is found in the Hungarian people of Central Europe and he added in his final report that this very same gene can be found also on five scattered points of the globe. The consequence of this finding – which ruined the hoped-for expectations of the pro-Semitic Rockefeller Foundation – was the immediate cancellation of the funding, and, banning the publication of the report. The research team, of course, was disbanded. The report did not see the light of day.