As told in the diary, only Milla staged a delayed protest, none of the parties tried to hold a substitute rally. Thus this time, there was no far-right 'counter-protest', either. But on my way, I saw a sticker of one of the right-of-Jobbik slinters, the 'Hungarian National Front' (the red/whitr striped flag is based on the far-right's Árbád-stripes flag, the outline is a guy holding a Kalashnikov, the slogan is: "Order, Power, Honour!" – as of now they represent none.)

One of the main university complexes in Budapest is a few hundred metres from the protest site. In front of it, there was this switchbox with a graffiti of independent student organisation HaHa:

Due to construction works, the Milla protest was at a different location than usual. But this location is symbolic of something, too: the shield-like roof on the right of the stage belongs to Budapest's still unfinished Metro Line 4, which was already scandalously long delayed and over budget under the previous government, but Fidesz's revenge on Budapest (even after the Fidesz candidate became major) included causing a work stoppage. The crowd was maybe 5,000 people.

The first 'speaker' was a Pinochet impersonator.

This set the frame for the sober mood during the next speakers who described the spreading misery in their sectors (there was a social worker, a feminist, a teacher, a student, and a Roma activist), a mood that wasn't lifted by the failure of the opposition alliance idea (although this time the Socialists came with prominently displayed flags) and the weather (the wind became strong again at the time of sunset and I shivered in a thick winter coat). Most speakers mentioned the modification of the constitution. One new idea that came up was parliament and election boycott, but the same parties who were more bothered about each other than the government power grab are unlikely to go that route.

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