Budapest
It wasn't just a flash in the pan. Péter Magyar, ex-Fidesz golden boy turned renegade, achieved in a few weeks a breakthrough that is reshuffling the cards of political life in Hungary.
“Let us show that we, conservatives, civic democrats, social democrats and liberals, we are Hungarians above all and that together we can change the future of our country
,” he said on Saturday to a huge and esteemed crowd. to a hundred thousand people, overflowing from Parliament Square. The popular enthusiasm for this man with undeniable charisma and ease is equal to the frustration in the face of a political life stifled by the hegemony of Fidesz.
Coming from a very conservative background in Budapest's high society, the 43-year-old lawyer offers a centrist third way. For this, he wants to rally to him the disappointed Fidesz, as well as those who have lost all hope of political change and who no longer trust the traditional parties of the left and liberal opposition to beat...
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