[Al Jazeera] Thousands of protesters have demonstrated outside Hungary's parliament to express their frustration over Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz Party's resounding victory in last month's national elections. Parliament returned on Tuesday amid demonstrations from across ideological backgrounds, from the left to right-wing nationalists. Protesters chanted "dirty Fidesz" while holding up signs accusing Orban of corruption, stealing European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...(EU) funds, and creating an unfair election system.
Orban's Fidesz party won national elections in April with 49 percent of the vote, maintaining its 133-seat absolute majority in parliament.
"The main call to action today is for the opposition to unite. Everyone is fed up of the corruption that's everywhere in Hungarian society. But we cannot fight this while the opposition is weak and fragmented," Samuel Korandi, a 26-year-old civil engineer at the protest, told Al Jazeera.
Symbolising this message, protesters held up flags amalgamating the different symbols of the opposition.
Orban secured a third-straight term as prime minister with a two-thirds majority in parliament, through a virulently nationalistic campaign that presented him as the defender of "Christian values", which he claims are threatened by globalisation and mass immigration.
It was a message that resonated with millions of voters, mostly from rural areas.
Tuesday's protests, the third demonstration to sweep through central Budapest in the past month, reveal the highly polarised views towards the Fidesz Party.
Since Orban regained power eight years ago, critics have complained about corruption and cronyism, the dismantling of the rule of law, restrictions on media freedom and his anti-immigration policies.
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...(OSCE) observed the "constricted space for genuine political debate" and the use of "intimidating and xenophobic rhetoric, media bias and opaque campaign financing" in the recent elections.
"Hungary is now a one-party state, totally controlled by Fidesz. There is no opportunity for genuine competition in elections," Peter Sarosi, director at Hungarian NGO Rights Reporter Foundation, told Al Jazeera.