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Tens of thousands of Hungarians joined a protest to support Prime Minister Viktor Orban as the European Union pressed the country’s government to change laws that have blocked talks on an international bailout.

Demonstrators marched through the center of Budapest to parliament yesterday in an event organized by a group including Zsolt Bayer, a journalist with Magyar Hirlap newspaper and a founding member of Orban’s Fidesz party. The Interior Ministry said almost 400,000 people attended, while news website Index estimated the turnout at more than 100,000.

“We say yes to Europe but no to what Europe is doing to Hungary and the Hungarian government,” Bayer said in a video message posted on the Internet before the rally. Organizers marching at the front of the crowd carried a banner saying “We won’t become a colony,” a slogan Bayer repeated outside Hungary’s neo-gothic parliament.

This happened just around the corner from my apartment building on Saturday. Traffic diverted, two major streets full of demonstrators, and dozens of buses not just from all over Hungary but neighboring states too. Impressively orchestrated by the government, but I’ll refrain from any further comment.

as a citizen of that gently messed-up state, i can do the comment part: namely, we all know what an “enormous pro-government protest” means in that region of the world from history books. as of what i heard, fearmongering went around in the administrative sector, suggesting a “very strong recommendation” from employers to show up on this occasion, same in some catholic schools. on the other hand there were the zealots, one of them carried around a painted picture of the PM all the time. got the image? then it all makes an incredible load of sense, clearly.