On Monday, December 17, about a thousand people gathered in front of the public media company MTVA.
Several members of the opposition parties of the Hungarian parliament joined the demonstrators. They broke into the company building and demanded that the protesters be heard.
The chairman of the Hungarian Socialist Party, Bertalan Toth, said that the demands of the demonstrators must be heard. He insists that MTVA is “not private television” of the party of Orban, but “television of the Hungarian people, financed from its taxes”.
Security officers managed to force two oppositionists out of the media company building. One deputy needed medical assistance.
The reason for the protests in Hungary was the new labor law. The protesters are not satisfied with the assumption of a sharp increase in overtime work and the policy of the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban as a whole.