In Budapest have again demonstrated thousands of people against the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. After a March through the city centre, they moved to the front of the Budapest Parliament. The sixth was a large rally in ten days.
As in the past few days, they demanded the withdrawal of a law that the Overtime controls. The Wednesday a week ago, the Parliament adopted a new labour code provides that employers can require their employees up to 400 hours of Overtime in a year. Critics speak of a "slave law". The unions fear that in a hidden way, the Six-day working week could be introduced.
it is Demonstrated, but also against other abuses under the government of Orbán, which they criticize as the "Viktator". Including the one-sided Pro-government coverage of the public broadcaster, the restriction of the freedom of Science and the corruption around senior government officials and their families.
In the past few days, it came to rallies in several major cities of the country. The government is undeterred. President János Ader, a follower of Orban's, had signed the work act on Thursday, making it, as planned, on 1. January 2019 in force
Orbán himself had on Friday morning in his regular radio Interview, dismissed the protests as an excessive reaction of the Opposition. "The same hysterical cries, there were many times, such as we have the obligation to work (for welfare recipients) introduced," he said.