(10 Jun 2025)
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Budapest – 10 June 2025
1. Wide of demonstrators clapping
2. Close of man clapping
3. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Dénes Sallai, musician:
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"It looks increasingly like the majority of people are fed up with the actions of this regime, and there appears to be a real chance that next year, after 16 years, (Hungary’s ruling party) Fidesz won’t be the one to form a government.”
4. Tilt down from EU and rainbow flags to people
5. Wide of demonstrators clapping
6. Wide of Sallai on stage and demonstrators clapping
7. Wide of EU and Hungary flags
8. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Piroska Hajdú, demonstrator:
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"I think that the scope of corruption that is in this country, as well as the inequality and social situation that we have is really not good. We’re very far from Europe in many ways, which I don’t think is a good thing. We have to achieve change while we still can.”
9. Mid of a banner reading (Hungarian) "Freedom is not up for negotiation”
10. Wide of demonstrators, Pride flag
11. Mid of demonstrators clapping
12. Wide of demonstration and stage
13. Mid of protestors holding banners
14. Pan right of demonstration
STORYLINE:
Thousands of protesters filled a central square in Hungary’s capital on Tuesday in what organizers called the beginning of a resistance movement against the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
It’s the latest sign of pushback against the long-serving leader’s right-wing populist policies.
Nearly two dozen public figures including writers, actors, musicians, journalists and content creators lent their support to the demonstration in Budapest, delivering speeches to the thousands gathered beside Hungary’s neo-Gothic parliament building.
Most speakers referenced what they view as the Hungarian government’s increasingly anti-democratic conduct, as well as deep-seated corruption and economic inequality which is seen as profiting those with ties to Orbán’s Fidesz party.
“It looks increasingly like the majority of people are fed up with the actions of this regime,” said Dénes Sallai, a musician.
The demonstration was the latest in a series of anti-government protests that erupted after Orbán’s party pushed a law in March and a constitutional amendment the following month that effectively banned public LGBTQ+ events including the popular annual Budapest Pride.
That law also allowed for authorities to use facial recognition technology to identify and fine participants in prohibited assemblies.
Speakers at Tuesday’s demonstration warned that a recent draft bill that would allow the government to blacklist critical media organizations and NGOs would mean the end of independent journalism and free civic engagement in Hungary.
AP video by Bela Szandelszky
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