DEBRECEN \u2014\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nA rising challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n held what he called the largest countryside political demonstration in the country\u2019s recent history Sunday, the latest stop on his campaign tour that has mobilized thousands across Hungary\u2019s rural heartland.<\/p>\n
Some 10,000 people gathered in Debrecen, Hungary\u2019s second-largest city, in support of P\u00e9ter Magyar, a political newcomer who in less than three months has shot to prominence on pledges to bring an end to problems like official corruption and a declining quality of life in the Central European country.<\/p>\n
Supporters endured a brief but unexpected rain shower ahead of the afternoon demonstration, turning the city’s central square into a sea of umbrellas. They waved Hungarian flags bearing the names of towns and villages across the country from which they had come.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, the vast majority of the Hungarian people are tired of the ruling elite, of the hatred, apathy, propaganda and artificial divides,\u201d Magyar told the crowd. \u201cHungarians today want cooperation, love, unity and peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Magyar, a former insider within Hungary\u2019s ruling Fidesz party, has since February denounced the nationalist Orb\u00e1n as running an entrenched \u201cmafia state,\u201d and declared war on what he calls a propaganda machine run by the government.<\/p>\n
His party, TISZA (Respect and Freedom), has announced it will run 12 candidates in the June 9 European Union elections, with Magyar appearing first on the party list. TISZA has also announced it will run four candidates in local council elections in the capital Budapest.<\/p>\n
His appearance Sunday in Debrecen, a stronghold of Orb\u00e1n\u2019s ruling Fidesz party, reflected the focus his fledgling campaign has placed on the Hungarian countryside, where Orb\u00e1n is popular.<\/p>\n
The Mother\u2019s Day event was the latest stop on a tour of the country where Magyar has appeared in dozens of cities, towns and villages, often drawing thousands of supporters \u2014 numbers that few Orb\u00e1n opponents have ever been able to mobilize in rural areas.<\/p>\n
Addressing the crowd, he said that \u201cgovernment propaganda\u201d had tried to discredit his movement as “just a downtown Budapest media hack,\u201d and criticized Hungary’s traditional opposition parties as having abandoned rural Hungarians.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve heard for 14 years from the opposition that it\u2019s impossible in these circumstances to defeat Orb\u00e1n, that it\u2019s not worth traveling to the countryside, that young people aren\u2019t interested in politics, that you can\u2019t break down the walls of propaganda,\u201d he said. \u201cBut look around! What\u2019s the truth?\u201d<\/p>\n
Katalin Nagy, who traveled several hours to the rally, said she finds Magyar credible \u201cbecause he comes from the inside.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s aware of the things that are really causing problems in this country, and I think he can provide solutions to problems so that we can come out of the hole that this country is currently in,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Recent polls show that Magyar\u2019s party may have become the largest opposition force in little more than a month before the election. Pollster Median this week measured TISZA at 25% among certain voters, with Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Fidesz well ahead at 45%.<\/p>\n
Governing party politicians have dismissed Magyar, who describes himself as a moderate conservative, as a leftist in disguise, and suggested that foreign interests lie behind his rise.<\/p>\n
Orb\u00e1n and has party have ruled Hungary with a constitutional majority since 2010. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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