2018 protests in Hungary

On this day, members of the Jobbik, MSZP, LMP, DK and Dialogue in Parliament disrupted the legislature by whistling, shouting, scattering paper and preventing access to the presidential pulpit, thereby obstructing the vote.

At the sitting of 10 December 2018, the factions of the opposition parties tried to drag the debate with parliamentary obstruction to prevent a vote on the Overtime Act.

On the evening of the 12th of December, the news of the parliamentary scandal and the fact that the Office of the Parliament declared the voting of the laws to be regular, thousands of crowds gathered in Kossuth Square.

During the evening, there were also major clashes between protesters and police officers at the EMMI building, the Western Railway Station, Oktogon and Király utca.

organized a demonstration entitled Jobbik, LMP, Momentum, MSZP, DK and Dialogue, among trade unions and opposition parties.

In parallel with the events in the capital, smaller and larger movements were organized in Debrecen, Sopron, Gyöngyös, Szeged, Békéscsaba, Győr, Miskolc and Veszprém.

Several representatives - Bernadett Szél, László Varju, István Ujhelyi, Lajos Korózs, Anett Bősz, Lajos Kepli, Ágnes Kunhalmi, Andrea Varga-Damm, Tibor Bana, Zsolt Gréczy, Bence Tordai - gave live telephone video coverage of the events ; the number of viewers on Facebook live has occasionally exceeded 40,000.

The protection of studios and editorial rooms by armed guards was justified on the grounds that the entry of Members into these areas would disrupt the proper functioning of the public institution.

[7] In January 2019, a series of anti-slave law and anti-government demonstrations was met with water cannon and protesters tossed tissue papers at police.