Huge rally supports Hungary premier against EU

At least 100,000 people took to the streets of Budapest on Saturday in support of Viktor Orban, Hungary's two-time prime minister, who is currently caught up in a dispute with the European Union over new laws which the EU says threaten democracy.

Attila Mesterhazy, the president of the Hungarian Socialist Party, says Orban is trying to portray himself as the protector of Hungarian sovereignty and the attacks on him as attacks on the people.

Al Jazeera's Rory Challands reports from Budapest.

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[prodiigy87]

We support you Hungarians in Poland! Poland & Hungary- two brothers. Be proud. F..ck Tusk!

[edesbori]

The people was more, than 400.000 person!!!!!! That is correct information! (Data is of The Hungarian Ministery of the Interior) :) Bori, one girl among many demonstrator.

[biten1]

Nice to see hungary resist the attack from EUSSR. Sweden currently getting raped in the butt, not doing so well. The swedish tiger will wake up, i promise.

[agyagos]

Mesterhazy (socialist party leader) is a treasonous man, he is against the hungarian peoples, he is a treasonable bourgeois.servis man one. HE tell lie and is a lieung man

[agyagos]

@prodiigy87

Thanx for all!

[fullfist]

as soon as someone sticks out for themselves against the opressive communist creation- EU

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then they're called "totalitarian" or "dictator" or "government interventionism" "undemocratic"

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proud, home-loving hungarians are called "fascists" and so on...

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democracy is just a cheap punch line for the jew. THEY WANT TO DESTROY WHO WE ARE, drown us in the millions of people without identity, our way of life. the minorities get more power but the hungarians get less. democracy? give me a break.

[GiggyFap1]

good jobs hungarians

[agyagos]

@zhongjinshu1

You trust in the german print, Oh, my dear, that is a untrue print, if they writed down such whackers!

[agyagos]

@pttike1981

you 're a nacionalist bad man!

[pttike1981]

Orban is a gypsy

[iambrus]

@zhongjinshu1 You said:"Die Zeit, der Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Die Welt. have a great reputation and are considered as well reserched and unbiased. " Jolly good. So, why don't you write a letter like this.

Dear Die Zeit, der Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Die Welt, please can make a highly professional and detailed article about the anti-demokratic parts of the new Hungarian constitution. "Page no:X §no:y Text.....Text...." and compare it the German constitution.

Your sincerer reader

[iambrus]

@zhongjinshu1 You said:"orban has the power to do so because 2 thirds of the parlament belong to his party." What party? There is a coalition, KDNP is a separated party. So, if in a country people vote for a coalition and gets 2/3 is unconstitutional automatically? What is the limit? 2/3-1 is ok? You said:"because the constitution does not aprove his ideas." A constitution made in 1949 should not be approved by anybody in the EU. You should have said,"What took so long to change it?"