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Hungary opposition groups form electoral alliance

October 23, 2012

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian opposition groups say they are forming an electoral alliance meant to defeat Prime Minister Viktor Orban's governing Fidesz party in 2014.

Gordon Bajnai, Orban's predecessor, said the alliance will seek to make Hungary "a normal, democratic and European society" and integrate the disparate groups opposing Orban's right-wing government. Bajnai spoke to 30,000 supporters at a bridge in Budapest Tuesday.

Orban, speaking to an estimated 150,000 supporters at a separate rally outside parliament, against criticized the EU, saying it needs to be more decisive with the economic crisis. Orban said that while Hungary accepts rules applying to all EU members, "we cannot accept anyone telling us what we can and cannot do in our own country."

Both rallies were held to commemorate the 56th anniversary of Hungary's anti-Soviet 1956 uprising.

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