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This is how the opposition wants to defeat Orbán
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Representatives of parliamentary opposition parties have called on the public to support a referendum initiative which they say would be “a step towards changing the government”.
Péter Márki-Zay, prime ministerial candidate of the united opposition, called on voters to support the referendum “to stem corruption and poverty”. One of the referendum’s two questions aims to provide affordable housing for students as opposed to plans to construct a campus of Fudan University at the site. The other question is about the opposition’s initiative to extend the period of unemployment benefits from three months to nine, which he said was the shortest in the European Union.
The referendum, he insisted, had a “larger significance” and would help the opposition win
“a majority which could release Hungary from the most corrupt government in its history”.
Gergely Karácsony, mayor of Budapest and co-leader of the Párbeszéd party, said that so far the united opposition has gathered almost 100,000 signatures in support of the proposed referendum.
Hungary, he said, needed “a government which serves the people” rather than “rulers who lord it over them”, adding that the six opposition parties had formed an alliance to make that happen.
UNITED OPPOSITION = UNITED TRAITORS OF HUNGARY