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"We don't like the regime" protesters shouted on Sunday, October 23 in the Hungarian capital during the biggest anti-government protest organised since Viktor Orbán became prime minister in May 2010. On the 55th anniversary of the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, tens of thousands (100 000 according to the organizers) of "republican patriots," as Hungarian daily Népszabadság calls them on its front page, gathered via a Facebook group called "A million for press freedom". The protesters denounce a government qualified as authoritarian and are calling for unity among the opposition. Conservative daily Magyar Nemzet, for its part, stressed that the protesters "don't provide a credible alternative" and decried the social composition of the protesters, which included intellectuals, students and counter-culture figures - not, it was claimed, a representative sample of the Hungarian population.
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