Peace March for Hungary & Co. since 2012

Peace March for Hungary seems to be a real Hungarian Brand. Still supporting the governor party Fidesz and its leader, the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban, the 6th Peace March organized by the Forum of Civic Cooperation (CÖF, Civil Összefogás Fóruma) will join the Fidesz closing campaign event on Heroes square on Saturday, 29th March.

The March will take the following route: Leaving at 1.30 p.m. Kossuth Square, Alkotmány Street, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Road, Andrássy Avenue, and the final destination of the peaceful Peace March is Heroes Square, where Viktor Orbán will talk to the public at 3 pm. Even though this is the reverse direction of the first March (21st January 2012), the political orientation remains the same.

CÖF, and its leaders – László Csizmadia (president of CÖF, lawyer), Zsolt Bayer (journalist), Tamás Fricz (political analyst), András Bencsik (journalist), and Gábor Széles (businessman, owner of quite a few right-wing media) – have been providing support for Fidesz since the beginning of 2012. The Opposition claims that the support is reciprocal and CÖF is financed by Fidesz.

Laszló Csizmadia is expecting a million people to participate and considers the March as a bridge to the happy future over harmful intrigues, the polgarportal.hu writes.Tamás Fricz clearly states on the news portal, MNO, in his article published on Monday, 24th March, that the reason for the sixth Peace March is the intention to finally close the post-communist period and launch the age of national sovereignty-based democracy.

CÖF launched a series of publications, in the right wing journal Magyar Hírlap, on the management of Hungarian national assets between 2006 and 2010. The investigated period does not include the last 3 years, since Fidesz is now the governing party.

The first four Peace Marches in Budapest :
• 21st January 2012 with 500 thousand people*

• 15th March 2012 with 100 thousand people* and the Polish friends

• 23rd October 2012 with 400 thousand people*
• 23rd October 2013 with 600 thousand people*

more than ever, especially much more than the one before, held in Gyula, on the 5th February 2013 with 30 thousand people*

*according to the organizers

A virtual peace march launched in April 2013 was reached by several hundred thousand visitors. For an international public, it was available in English."


Dear Friends,
There has been a systematic smear campaign against Hungary since the 2010 elections, whereby large-circulation newspapers, television shows and other media tendentiously spread false and discrediting news on a daily basis. These news reports attempt to convince public opinion, which is unfamiliar with the Hungarian reality, that democracy has been undermined in Hungary, that minorities are persecuted, that the press is not free, that ordinary people must fear, that anti-Semitism and prejudice are raging, and that an extreme right-wing elite is getting ready to introduce a totalitarian dictatorship.

These news reports bear no relation to the reality. There is democracy in Hungary , nobody is discriminated against due to their origins and everybody is free to publish their own opinions. The new Fundamental Law of Hungary, which replaced the former Stalinist Constitution with a twenty-year delay after elimination of the socialist dictatorship, is in line with European standards and the finest traditions of more than one thousand years of Hungarian statehood.

Dear Friends,
We follow these news reports with ever growing concern, because the twentieth century taught us many times that media smear campaigns against countries stigmatized as guilty were sometimes followed by actual military intervention. We do not wish to share the fate of countries declared guilty, so we ask you to inform yourselves about the actual state of Hungary’s affairs in person or, if that is not possible, through reliable people, and from as many sources as possible.

The centre-right conservative camp won a victory resulting in the highest achievable two-thirds majority through democratic elections in Hungary in 2010. This victory occurred because the vast majority of society had had enough of the damage caused by the post-communist left-wing and liberal leadership.

We call this great spiritual change the "two-thirds revolution" because it resulted in a social revolution that enabled the closure of the temporary post-communist era within a constitutional framework. This highly ambivalent era was dominated by a left wing whose motto was: "It may not be moral, but it is legal."

Dear Friends,
More and more of our fellow Hungarians who emigrated in the past to Germany, England and other countries, including the United States, report that they are asked almost every day there about events in Hungary and the explanation for the terrible news that the local newspapers inform them about. We cannot answer each of these false allegations, partly because we would not have enough time and partly because these media outlets are unwilling to give room to our opinions.

You should realize, however, that this is not a crusade against Hungary. This crusade is the reaction of the left-wing and liberal intellectuals dominating the international media to the devastating defeat the Hungarian voters inflicted on them and the conservative revolution in Hungary. The leftists and liberals fear a Europe-wide conservative shift, which is why they wish to wipe out the results of the Hungarian change and launched a smear campaign against us.

We said in the most critical period that "we believe in the power of love and unity". This belief not only enabled us to close the chaotic post-communist era after twenty years once and for all, but also to protect the results of our decisions. At marches attended by half a million people, extraordinary numbers by European terms, we took an oath to protect the government, which we elected ourselves, against external attacks.

Dear Friends,
Please believe us that the people of the 1956 revolution knows today too that hard work, fair democracy, national independence, tolerance and mutual understanding are capable of miraculous things.

Please convince yourselves of the truth of our statements in person.

Finally, please convey the message of the Hungarians to all citizens of the European Union: "We continue to believe steadfastly in the power of love and unity"

Budapest, April 2013"




edited by Csilla Katona
proofread by Jeremy Stanford www.copyfit.co.uk