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Péter Magyar (front person of the TISZA party) had a very quick rise to politics, following a scandal that seemingly detonated a pile of dynamite waiting in Hungarian politics for years.
- 2024.02.01 - 444 publishes an article that ignites the presidential pardon scandal
- 2024.02.10 - The President Katalin Novák and the Minister of Justice Judit Varga resigns. Péter Magyar, ex-husband of the Minister of Justice announces that he cuts ties with state-owned companies and resigns from related positions.
- 2024.02.11 - Péter Magyar gives his infamous interview to Partizán, starkly speaking against the government, but denying that he would want to get into politics himself, calling the idea a bad joke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cJulnczg2E
- 2024.02.12 - A handful of Hungarian content creators publish a statement and announce an upcoming demonstration titled “Odakint most szörnyek járnak” (There are monsters lurking out there)
- Judit Bányai (Nemakarokbeleszólni, Jólvanezígy, Fókuszcsoport)
- Attila Baukó (Azahriah)
- Eszter Fancsikai (Nemakarokbeleszólni)
- Márton Gulyás (Telex)
- Ádám Nagy (Jólvanezígy, Fókuszcsoport)
- Edina Pottyondy
- Zsolt Osváth (Zshowtime)
- Márton Szabó (Jólvanezígy)
- Orsi Tapasztó (Nemakarokbeleszólni)
- 2024.02.16 - The protest 4 days after its announcement brings out 150 000 people in a country that was in political depression, desperation and indifference, and where people saw no hope that we will rise and act ever again. The capitol’s public transport system crashes due to the number of people flooding it, a significant number of people can’t reach the demonstration due to this.
- 2024.02.27 - Péter Magyar gives an interview to Telex where he says he’s unsure about getting into politics but many try to convince him to run. https://youtu.be/WC-79xXadzE?si=_EnKE44khUKEGgyS
- 2024.03.15 (National Holiday) - Péter Magyar announces that he will start a new political movement
- 2024.04.06 - During a demonstration at Kossuth Square, he announced that him and other people from his movement will run for EU Parliament mandates that year, but still not naming his party.He also announced that he will start a two months roadshow and will visit small cities and villages all over the country.
- 2024.04.10 - Péter Magyar announces that his party will be the TISZA Party. TISZA is short for Tisztelet és Szabadság (Respect and Freedom), but also a playful acronym, Tisza being the name of one of Hungary’s two big rivers.
Related
- Péter Magyar’s roadshows are an important feature, because political actors rarely left the capitol during the time FIDESZ had a super majority in Hungary.
- Political change was a dream of many, and many didn’t/don’t like how its reality shaped. 3f-political-reality-of-change-in-2024-26-hungary-looks-very-different-than-the-ide-that-ignited-it
- Is Péter Magyar our Katniss Everdeen? Meaning that maybe a revolution was ready and only waiting for a fitting public face. 3f1a-is-peter-magyar-our-katniss-everdeen