Around 15,000 protesters gathered in Hungary’s capital on Tuesday in what organisers called the beginning of a resistance movement against the government of populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Several public figures joined the demonstration in Budapest. Most of the speakers criticised what the government’s increasingly “anti-democratic conduct”. Some alleged corruption benefiting those with ties to Orbán’s Fidesz party.

It was the latest anti-government protest since Orbán’s party pushed through a law in March, and a constitutional amendment the following month, that effectively banned public LGBTQ+ events.