Although Bálint Szabó had planned to postpone the August 20 farmers' demonstration that he organized until the morning, which would have included marching to the Parliament with three hundred tractors, the demonstration lost all momentum by Saturday midnight. In the end, not a single work machine arrived, while the vast majority of the hundred or so protesters went home. There was a participant who already during the day called Szabo's promises about the parade of the tractor fleet a scam, read Magyar Nemzet.

Bálint Szabó, the organizer of the farmers' demonstration announced for August 20, reached midnight in the company of barely a dozen well-wishers. In the end, not a single tractor arrived, even though the Szeged municipal representative promised to line up more than three hundred machines in the afternoon.

In Mediaworks-Hírcentrum's on-site coverage, Szabó previously stated that they would march to the section of Pest's lower wharf next to the Parliament with the fleet of tractors arriving at midnight, and would stay there at least until morning. At the end of the day, however, he admitted that the machines would not arrive later either.

It is noteworthy that during the demonstration, several participants and passers-by believed that Bálint Szabó was just fooling his followers about the tractor fleet heading to Budapest.

It also casts a shadow over Bálint Szabó's initiative that, as Mediaworks-Hírcentrum wrote, the representative from Szeged tried to take advantage of the farmers to obtain part of the agricultural subsidies due to the latter.

Reminder: in February of this year, news appeared that employees of Szabó's company, Likvid Kontroll Kft., who is a politician in Szeged as a municipal representative, called farmers on the phone to ask how much support they were entitled to, and offered that their company would give it to them. claims to government offices for a ten percent success fee.

In the end, the Ministry of Agriculture prevented the farmers from being deceived, when they announced in a statement that there was no need for mediation to transfer the subsidies.

By the way, Bálint Szabó is a real political adventurer: after starting his tortuous public career as a member of Fidesz, he soon moved to the MSZP, but after a detour of a few years (during which he also worked as a vacuum cleaner agent) he was also the DK's spokesperson in Szeged.

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