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In Hungary, several thousand people demonstrated Saturday across the country. A day organized at the call of the unions and in which the opposition and associations participated. Since December, Hungarians regularly go out on the streets to protest against a new Labor law passed last December by the nationalist right of Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The text allows an employer to request up to 400 additional hours a year for his employees, while paying them 3 years later. In Budapest, mobilization was slightly down on December. But the Hungarians seem determined to continue the movement.
With our correspondent in Budapest, Florence La Bruyère
The freezing cold did not stop Hungarians from taking to the streets. They were 2,000 in Miskolc, a large city in the north, 1,500 in Pécs, a university town in the south of the country. Elsewhere, they protested in the hundreds against the Labor Law and the authoritarian regime of Viktor Orban. And dozens of motorists have expressed anger by slowing traffic.
In Budapest, 2,000 people demonstrated in support of the unions. The latter demand the withdrawal of the Labor Law and the modification of the right to strike. A right that the Orban government has much limited. Despite this, 4,000 workers at the Audi car factory walked out on Friday. And public service unions have filed notice to stop work.
" If the government does not withdraw this slavery law, it will strike, " said Katalin, a cashier in a supermarket. Even if the mobilization marks a slight decline, it is clear that discontent is spreading throughout the country.
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