• So Fidesz leader Orbán made his speech. It implies he wants to continue politics on the street. While he renounced violence in a half-sentence without details, he expressed support for peaceful protesters, and as a new twist, called for a limited-powers expert government for after the local elections in two weeks. Clever: should allay fears of a Fidesz power grab, while it would also allow Fidesz to not take responsibility of any austerity reforms of its own, and it has no chance of being followed.

• The PM for his part claimed knowledge of the organisers by name and suggested that there was a script for it. About the latter, I'm sceptical, based on known details of the escalation (a small group demanded yesterday at 10 pm that it be allowed to read a petition live on TV, upon being rejected they threatened to come back in force, went to the Parliament where the football hooligans and a few thousand joined them, while police did nothing to prepare for the storm; again the protesters weren't allowed in, who started to push in, overwhelmed police made matters worse with a tear gas attack, but hooligans knew how to defend themselves...)

• For long, all the various far-right groups I named demanded that a Soviet WWII memorial standing on the square before the TV be removed. Now they also defiled and damaged this monument, later showing removed stones to reporters. The attack was reported in Russia, linking it to Gyurcsány's upcoming visit to Moscow, but the Russian authorities issued a statement to the tune that they realise this wasn't the main issue last night and there is no link to the visit.

* There were again protests by a few hundred right-wingers in various countryside cities. Currently, the crowd before Parliament swelled again to around 3,000 (same as last night at this time). International media camped down, waiting for them to make trouble. This is how it looked a few hours ago - small crowd cordoned off on one side:

* Some new polls on the "we lied" speech: there is no absolute majority for resignation, while relative majority is inconclusive (Fidesz-aligned local branch of Gallup found one for resignation, Socialist-aligned Ipsos one against). But a near 60% majority wants "consequences".

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}