Thousands of Hungarians demonstrate against Orban
Mar 28, 2024
Budapest [Hungary], March 28: Thousands of people demonstrated in Budapest on Tuesday evening against the government of right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The protest was prompted by allegations of bribery and corruption against members of the government.
Peter Magyar, the ex-husband of Orban's former justice minister Judit Varga, had called for the demonstration. He described Orban as the "head of the mafia state."
Magyar had earlier published a secretly recorded private conversation with his former wife, which is said to prove that Orban's government tried to cover up the involvement of Antal Rogan, a minister and the head of Orban's Cabinet office, in a corruption case.
The public prosecutor's office has been investigating the corruption case since 2021, in which a state secretary in the Ministry of Justice led by Varga at the time is alleged to have accepted large bribes. (DPA)
Source: Qatar Tribune
