Thousands protest in Hungary against Viktor Orban’s government.

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, tens of thousands of people protested against the Prime Minister in Hungary. Minister Orban poured into the streets. Famous people from the field of music and culture as well as influencers from other walks of life called for this event. They wrote that “we have been hit enough” and called on people to raise their voices for “support for victims, transparency, human decency and honest social dialogue”. Raised in a children’s home. Hungarian President Katalin Nowak, who has since resigned, pardoned the perpetrators involved. Demonstrators blame the right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government for the conditions of children’s homes and the way violent crimes against children are treated.

As reported by the German newspaper Tageschau, on Friday, Bishop Zoltan Balogh, head of the Reformed Protestant Church of Hungary, has resigned due to his involvement in the so-called pedophilia scandal. Before becoming a bishop, he was a close and influential political companion of Orban for several decades. Balogh was Hungary’s minister of human resources and responsible for health, social affairs, youth, education, culture and sports from May 2012 to May 2018.

Balogh said in a video message posted on the homepage of the Reformed Church. I made a serious political mistake, though, in the case of amnesty. I asked for mercy. He justified his resignation by saying that the case damaged the reputation of his church.

Balogh is the third public figure to resign in the wake of the scandal. During these scandals, in addition to President Novak, then Justice Minister Judith Varga, who were jointly responsible for this controversial pardon, also resigned.

Novak had pardoned the former vice president of a Catholic children’s home. He was sentenced to three years and four months in prison for helping to cover up the child abuse case.

Victor Orban, Hungary’s conservative prime minister who has been in power since 2020, has tried to end the scandal. to ignore that he removed two of his political allies, namely the president and the former minister of justice.

However, the news about this scandal was still widely reflected in the domestic media of Hungary this week. . The disclosure of this pardon angered the people of Hungary, and several influential figures, including Azaria, the country’s famous singer, asked the people to demonstrate on Friday in the historical Heroes’ Square of Budapest.

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