(8 Jun 2024)
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Budapest, Hungary – 08 June 2024
1. Wide of demonstrators
2. Mid of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s challenger, Peter Magyar on stage
3. Wide of crowd
3. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Peter Magyar, head of the TISZA party and a challenger of Orban:
"If you want to, Hungary will not be the wedge, but the link between East and West. Do you want that?”
4. Wide of clapping crowd
5. Wide of demonstrator holding a scarf
6. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Peter Magyar, head of the TISZA party and a challenger of Orban:
"We just started a few months ago, and look around how many we are.”
7. Wide of crowd UPSOUND (Hungarian): "We are not afraid, we are not afraid!”
8. Mid of demonstrators holding a banner depicting Chinese and Russian presidents together with Viktor Orban
9. Wide of Magyar on stage
10. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Peter Magyar, head of the TISZA party and a challenger of Orban:
"Hungary cannot be lost, we can save Hungary together. You are the proof of that as you all want change. We are here and ready to change our destiny, the destiny that a rotten and oppressive power wants to impose on us. We are here today to send a message that we will no longer endure this with our heads down, we have nowhere to back off.”
11. Various of demonstrators waving flags
12. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Peter Magyar, head of the TISZA party and a challenger of Orban:
"At tomorrow’s election, we can decide whether we will be oppressed or living as free people in our own country in the long run. Hungary must be freed from the captivity in which it has been imprisoned for more than 20 years.”
13. Various of demonstrators waving flags
14. Tilt up to crowd
15. Mid of a woman chanting UPSOUND (Hungarian): "The TISZA is flooding, the Tisza is flooding” (NOTE: the word of Tisza is also the name of Hungary’s second-largest river, known to flood often)
16. Wide of crowd
17. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Peter Magyar, head of the TISZA party and a challenger of Orban:
"Tomorrow we will take the first step. We will prove to the citizens of this country that the TISZA party, only the TISZA party, is the force capable of challenging the corrupt regime in the next parliamentary election.”
18. Various of crowd
STORYLINE:
A rising political newcomer hoping to deal a blow to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban mobilized tens of thousands of supporters in Budapest on Saturday in a final show of strength a day before European Parliament elections.
Peter Magyar, a 43-year-old lawyer who in a matter of months has built up Hungary’s strongest opposition party, hopes to use a good showing in Sunday’s EU elections to propel himself and his movement toward defeating the nationalist Orban in the next national ballot scheduled for 2026.
Once an insider within Orban’s Fidesz party, Magyar has gained quick prominence by publicly accusing the prime minister and his allies of corruption and anti-democratic tendencies.
He has drawn thousands of curious spectators on a tour of nearly 200 Hungarian cities, towns and villages in the last two months.
In the blazing heat on Saturday, Magyar addressed the sprawling crowd that filled Budapest Heroes’ Square, saying his movement is the only one able to challenge Orban who has been in power for 14 years.
"We can save Hungary together. You are the proof of that as you all want change. We are here and ready to change our destiny, the destiny that a rotten and oppressive power wants to impose on us” he said. "We are here today to send a message that we will no longer endure this with our heads down, we have nowhere to back off.”
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