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Online influencers lead thousands demanding change in Hungary following president’s resignation

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By JUSTIN SPIKE
Associated Press

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Some of Hungary’s best-known online personalities have led a crowd of at least 10,000 protesters to demand a change in the country’s political culture. The event in Budapest on Friday came in response to the conservative president’s resignation over a pardon she issued in a child sexual abuse case. Demonstrators filled the Hungarian capital’s sprawling Heroes’ Square and called for genuine reforms to Hungary’s child protection system and for a transformation in longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s system of governance. President Katalin Novák, an Orbán ally, resigned last week after it was revealed that she issued a presidential pardon to a man that had been imprisoned for covering up a string of child sexual abuses by the director of a state-run orphanage.

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