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By Tamas Csonka in Budapest Peter Magyar, a onetime member of Hungary’s Fidesz elite who publicly broke with the radical rightwing party over its paedophile pardon scandal, will make his political debut at a rally scheduled for the March 15 national holiday, where he promises to set out how to replace the Orban regime. The date is more than symbolic for Magyar to launch what could eventually be the start of a career in politics, as March 15 marks the outbreak of the anti-Habsburg revolution in 1848. Hungary’s ‘independence day’ symbolises the fight for freedom against oppression, similar to th…

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