Budapest Police Ban Romanian Ultra-Nationalist Rally
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Ultra-Nationalist protest in Bucharest 2025
The rally announced for August 3 on Kossuth Square in Budapest by the ultra-nationalist organization Calea Neamului will not take place. The leader of the Romanian association, Mihai Tîrnoveanu, confirmed on his social media page that the police had banned the rally.
According to the ban decision, the chairman of the chauvinistic association expected 50 participants in addition to three main organizers for the event, which aimed to commemorate the Romanian occupation of Budapest in 1919.
The event was to take place on Antall József Embankment opposite the parliament building.
Tîrnoveanu justified this by saying that the event would have been anti-communist in nature, as he believed that Romanian soldiers had fought against the Bolsheviks under Béla Kun in the Hungarian capital. However, his argument did not meet the approval of the Hungarian right or the authorities.
During their investigation, the police found that the event could violate several points of the Assembly Act and therefore banned it. On the one hand, the event could unnecessarily and disproportionately interfere with the rights and freedoms of others, as holding the gathering posed a threat to public order. Perhaps more importantly, however, the police stated that
the commemoration could also violate the dignity of the Hungarian nation.
In its reasoning, the police also emphasized that Calea Neamului had organized or participated in several actions against Hungary in recent years. Előd Novák, vice president of the Our Homeland (Mi Hazánk) movement, had previously called for a ban on the commemoration, but Hungarian patriotic organizations had also announced plans to hold several counter-demonstrations on August 3.
Incidentally, Tîrnoveanu posted on his Facebook page on July 21 that he would be traveling to Baile Tusnad (Tusnádfürdő) on Saturday, where PM Viktor Orbán will give a speech at the Bálványos Free Summer University in the morning. The chauvinistic politician plans to appear at the event with a Romanian tricolor, perhaps in the same way he provoked Hungarians in the military cemetery in Valea Uzului (Úzvölgye) a few years ago.
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