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United Hungarian opposition marks the national holiday with EPP President Donald Tusk – UPDATE
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The united opposition gathered to mark the March 15 national holiday at a rally held on the Danube embankment in Buda near the Technical University on Tuesday afternoon.
Some of the participants marched over Szabadság Bridge where speeches are scheduled to be held by pastor Gábor Ivanyi, Momentum leader Anna Donáth, Budapest Mayor and Párbeszéd co-leader Gergely Karácsony, Jobbik leader Péter Jakab, LMP co-leader Erzsébet Schmuck, Socialist co-leader Bertalan Tóth, Democratic Coalition MEP Klára Dobrev, president of the European People’s Party (EPP) Donald Tusk and Péter Márki-Zay, the opposition’s prime ministerial candidate, the organisers said.
The crowd filled the area of the embankment between Szent Gellért Square and Bertalan Lajos Street.
Participants were holding the flags of Hungary and Ukraine, as well as of the DK, Jobbik, the Socialist and Momentum parties.
Márki-Zay: Hungary can return to ‘good side’ of history
Péter Márki-Zay, the prime ministerial candidate of the united opposition, told a rally marking the March 15 national holiday on Tuesday that he trusted Hungary could return to the “good side” of history.
Márki-Zay told the commemorative event held on the Danube embankment in front of the Technical University that “we believe the power belongs to the people and that David will defeat Goliath.”
“We believe that Hungary will return to the good side of history on April 3,”
he said referring to the upcoming general election. “Hungary will finally be a winner … we will again become a united nation and we can proudly say again that we are Hungarian wherever we travel in the world”, he added.
He asked opposition supporters to convince three more people each, so that “the most corrupt government in Hungarian history” can be replaced with a two-thirds majority.
Referring to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, he said
“one man had monopolised Hungarians” and added that it was unacceptable that “Hungarians should be losers in their own country”.
“This time it was not because of external coercion but the selfishness and lust for power of the our own leaders that we chose the declining East over the developing West, captivity over freedom and hate over love,” he said.
Márki-Zay said
never before had there been a simpler choice: Europe must be chosen over the East.
He said diversity made the opposition strong. What the opposition has built over the past four years with the involvement of parties and civilians will offer a more peaceful and secure country also for those that do not support it, he added.
He pledged for a caring, safer and more secure Hungary and confirmed the country’s Euroatlantic commitment.
Pastor Gábor Iványi told the rally that “Hungarian freedom cannot exist without world freedom” and said that in central Europe there was no transient space “between western freedom and eastern tyranny”.
Momentum leader Anna Donáth listed the 12 points of the opposition and called for stand-alone ministries for health and education.
Budapest Mayor and Párbeszed co-leader Gergely Karácsony said targets included real parliamentary representation, equality before the law, restoring the rule of law and discontinuing the regime of “turning power into money”.
Hungarians – we MUST do ALL in our Power – to remain UNITED.
If we FAIL to be UNITED – we will succumb to pressures from outside our boarders – that are ALL about dividing and separating us – creating divisions within us – our population – that are designed agendas – to pull destroy and bring us as a country DOWN.
United – we know through our PROUD history – remaining United the ability to “Fight the Fight” to-gether – what we can and will AGAIN achieve.
Tusk is a failed politician. Even Poland, his home country does not want him.