Gyurcsány: Government EU referendum manipulative ‘like 2006 riots’

Budapest, September 14 (MTI) – The government’s referendum on the EU’s migrant resettlement quota is forcing Hungarians into playing an “extremely dangerous and politically damaging” game, said DK leader Ferenc Gyurcsány in Szeged, in southern Hungary, on Wednesday.

The ruling Fidesz is manipulating people the same way that it did, in opposition, in 2006, during a raid on the television headquarters by demonstrators who were attempting a coup on the Socialist government at the time.

“The manipulators ten years ago are the same as now,” Gyurcsány said, adding that secret-service recordings prove that Fidesz officials organised the anti-government riots in 2006. The most important evidence has been classified as state secrets by the current government, he said, suggesting that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Speaker of Parliament László Kövér had been involved.

“The moment will come when these documents will be made public,” Gyurcsány said, referring to evidence on the 2006 anti-government riots. “Then people can really face those who had set a part of the capital on fire,” he said.