PHOTOS: Ex-husband of former Justice Minister Varga called together a mass protest for government change

Everyone must act for change, Péter Magyar said at a protest he called in Budapest on Saturday. “We are the nuclear bomb, the Hungarian people,” Magyar said, adding that the solution could not just be expected from him.

New community arose

“It won’t be enough to just sit back in the arm chair and post comments, today the square here is ours, the streets of Pest, but we must take back our villages and our cities,” the lawyer told sympathisers who filled Kossuth Square at an event called National March and Demonstration for a New Hungary.

“We Hungarians, we will unite. In the Stand Up, Hungarians! Community, it doesn’t matter if somebody is a conservative civic democrat, a national liberal or a social democrat, it doesn’t matter if they are a man or a woman, a senior or a young person, single or with a family, a believer or an atheist. Just one thing counts with us: if somebody wants to do something about a safe liveable future for their country, their children and their grandchildren,” Magyar said. “We will take back our country step by step, brick by brick, and build a new country, a sovereign, modern and European Hungary,” he added.

He announced a run in the European Parliament election on June 9. He pledged to announce the party with the help of whom that election run would be made “when the time comes”. He added that he wanted to achieve a result that would be “the first nail in the NER coffin”. He said applications were expected for the EP list and that conditions would be available online from Monday. He said June 9 would be a decisive day for the future, offering an alternative to Hungarians. He said he would travel around the country for two months.

Magyar claims there were 3-400 thousand people on his demonstration:

Last 20 years: era of Orbán and Gyurcsány

Addressing Hungary’s ties with the European Union, Magyar pointed to the importance of a sovereign Hungary and a strong European Union founded on strong nation states. He proposed winding up the debates over rule of law and bringing EU funding to Hungary as soon as possible, adding that he would immediately get the country to join the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, and strive to engage in constructive but critical dialogue with EU institutions, while rejecting the notion of a federal European superstate, and genuinely support the Hungarian economy.

In his speech, the lawyer called Ferenc Gyurcsány, the head of the opposition Democratic Coalition, a pillar and safeguard of the NER. He added that the pair of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Gyurcsány had been unchanged for 20 years and later urged the “start of a new era in Hungary”.

Magyar said a child in harm’s way today could not count on genuine and swift help. He pressed for as much money as the government spent on propaganda to be given to the victims of Bicske.

Be the Change association created

Magyar announced the establishment of an association called Be the Change that his sympathisers and supporters could join. He said the association would provide a legal framework for their cooperation and allow anybody to provide support for their shared causes with volunteer work, counsel or material contributions.