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Viktor Orbán under pressure as turmoil continues week after presidential pardon was revealed
Tens of thousands of people protested in Budapest on Friday at the biggest rally against Viktor Orbán’s government for years, after a sex-abuse case pardon by President Katalin Novák caused public uproar and led to her resignation.
The conservative Hungarian prime minister, who has been in power since 2010, has sought to defuse the week-old scandal that brought down two of his key political allies, the president and the former justice minister, Judit Varga, but it has continued to dominate domestic media.
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