One word is like a hundred, the Saturday forum is a shameful shambles, there is no question of any kind of mass demonstration. Written by László Zöldi Szentesi.
I read that according to Péter Magyar, three hundred thousand protested over the weekend, or at least several hundred thousand. According to the Mandiner, there were not even fifty thousand.
Before I write with great honesty how much it is, let me recall the first peace march. Mainly from mathematical calculation.
I was there at the beginning, after half an hour we reached Alkotmány utca, we drove along it, and I could already see the Parliament, when I remembered my friend from Csikszereda, the József Attila Prize-winning writer Attila György. With whom we arranged a meeting, but of course we did not find each other in the endless crowd of people. The phone rang, where are you going? He replied that he couldn't even leave Heroes' Square, there were so many people still there.
So let's make it clear: when the first peace march reached the Parliament, there were still so many people standing on Hősök Square that they couldn't even leave.
How many were there? At least two hundred thousand. Or a hundred thousand more. The crowd practically covered the entire city center and could not fit into Kossuth Square. And let's add, there were later peace marches in which there were even more of us. People stood in a dense crowd all the way to Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út, on the other side to the Danube, and it was impossible to move on Nádor utca, as well as to Szent István körút. After the first peace march, I watched the news channels, and one of the commercial fake news factories moaned that there were "a few thousand of us". Well, really: but rather a few hundred thousand.
However, if Péter Magyar's wishful thinking is already in the hundreds of thousands, let's take a look at the drone footage of Saturday's event! Indeed, even Kossuth square is not full, there are large holes on both sides, the crowd is especially dense in the middle of the square. I don't know how many there were, but it's a sure bet that it wasn't a hundred thousand.
Of course, everyone on the left is weak in the war of numbers. It can't be otherwise, since the Squirrel Guard has been organizing the demonstrations with them for twenty years, and they are keeping it small. If you think it's amazing that tens of thousands gathered against the government this time, think about two important things.
First of all: about a fifth of people still go to demonstrate from the left than from the right - which, considering their humanitarian policy supported by dollars, is disappointing for them.
On the other hand, it is a real joke that after four cycles of Fidesz government, there are still so few of them, essentially only a part of the liberal intelligentsia in Budapest. Of course, those who pretend that they are the country, but believe me, people in Csanytelek or Csurgó do not fantasize about them at all.
One word is like a hundred, the Saturday forum is a shameful shambles, there is no question of any kind of mass demonstration.
Only those who participated in the demonstration were already agitated when Ferenc Gyurcsány spontaneously waved May Day with them without a tie. There were obviously young and uninformed people there on Saturday, they will soon understand exactly who Péter Magyar is. Who is behind it, who finances it, what it represents, why it lies. What happened can't be undone - Pszicho Peti shouts on the air (thanks, Dani Bohár!), and really not, but it would have been appropriate to get a decent crowd together.
Failed. It never works. This is the point here, not the deaf side talk. As well as, of course, the fact that with Gyurcsán at the helm, the old left is just now preparing to overthrow the new.
By the way, I woke up this morning feeling missing. It would be nice to march with you again with the Hungarian flag in hand. Not in the fifty thousand, but in the two hundred and fifty thousand.
Because - I'm sorry - there is good taste in the world.
Cover image: Lawyer Péter Magyar at the gathering place of the National March and Demonstration for a New Hungary he announced at Deák Ferenc Square in the capital
MTI/Zoltán Balogh
