Budapest, Hungary – Around 15,000 protesters filled a square in the Hungary capital on Tuesday, in which the organizers launched a resistance movement against the government of Local Prime Minister Victor Orban.

About two dozen public figures including writers, actors, musicians and journalists joined the performance in Budapest. Most of the speakers criticized what they see as a rapid democratic conduct of the government. Some alleged corruption benefited from those who belong to the Fids party of Orban.

“This country is not related to those who lie, who looted people who have sold their humanity for power,” a speaker, CSABA BOGOS. “This country is of people who dare to think, who can read between lines, who rely on themselves and each other, and believe that there is a common, peaceful future that we have to make together.”

This was the latest anti -government opposition as Orban’s party pushed through a law in March, and the following month a constitutional amendment, which effectively banned public LGBTQ+ events.

That law allowed the authorities to use facial recognition techniques to identify and correct participants in prohibited assemblies. It alleged that Orban was leading the country towards a complete autocracy similar to Russia under President Vladimir Putin.

In 2026, as the national elections and Orban’s party in most of the elections for a new opposition challenger, the opponents of the Hungary leader say that they have moved towards a more powerful strategy to silence critics.

In Tuesday’s performance, the speakers warned that a recent draft bill that would allow the government to blacklist important media organizations and NGOs would mean the end of independent journalism and civilian engagement.

The bill will allow the government to monitor, restrict, punish and probably ban ban on restricted organizations, which is a threat to the national sovereignty of Hungary. There was a delay in its passage recently till the autumn session of Parliament.

A petition was signed by some 80 major news outlets across Europe, urging the bill to be canceled, and the European Union Executive Committee said it would violate the European Union laws and fundamental values.

The protesting Dániel Szabó stated that the law was not aimed at protecting Hungary’s sovereignty, but was designed to strengthen power for the governing party.

“We have a clear situation where the government is trying to silence the opposition,” Sajabo said. “Any type of general co -existence or possibility of possibility for consensus is now attacked from every direction.”

A popular musician and rapper, Danes Sallai, told the mob that he sees the signal that long -term support for Orban and his party was decreasing.

He said, “Most people are fed up with the functions of this regime, and a real opportunity seems to be that next year, 16 years later, Fidsz will not be one to form a government,” he said.