Its results contradict previously published data from the Hungarian Tourism Agency, a government institution, which estimated that 180,000 people showed up at Orbán's rally. people, and Magyara – 150 thousand.
Turnout at the march without influencing the elections?
Other independent experts quoted by the Hungarian media also concluded that the event organized by the opposition Tisza gathered a larger number of people than the Fidesz march and the ruling party leader's speech.
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Daily News Hungary noted, however, that “even if Szabo is right and Magyar's event attracted almost three times as many people as Orban's speech, it does not mean much in the context of the elections.” “Fidesz is not strong in Budapest, and his list received less than 35 percent in the capital in the last local elections. votes,” it was noted.
The processions passed through the streets of Budapest
On Sunday in Budapest, Fidesz and TISHA organized competing marches – the Peace March and the National March. Orban devoted a significant part of his speech to the European Union's alleged plans to draw Hungary into the war in Ukraine; he also opposed the aid provided by Brussels to this country.
Magyar, in turn, presented the April vote as a choice between enslavement and freedom, referring to the spirit of the 1848 revolution, which was commemorated on that day.
