Tens of thousands of Hungarians packed Budapest's most iconic avenue today (April 14, 2018) to protest Prime Minister Viktor Orban's re-election this week , saying it may further stifle democratic freedoms in the ex-Communist European Union (EU) member, according to the Bloomberg website.
Protesters marched today from the Opera on Andrassy Avenue to the square in front of Parliament in the biggest anti-government protest in years.
Orban won a crushing victory by pledging a fight against EU plans to allocate refugees across the bloc and a crackdown on civil society groups.
Since 2010, Hungary's autocrat has centralized power by appointing allies to the helm of independent institutions, including the courts, and extending his influence over much of the media.
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