Fidesz is open to debate but vandalism and violence must not be used in resolving any type of debate, the ruling party’s communications director Máté Kocsis told a press conference at the party headquarters on Monday.

He said the damage caused in the building was in the range of ten million forints and called on the political organisations that backed Sunday’s demo to also reject such action for resolving disputed issues.

One of the protest’s organisers, Balázs Gulyás, who also created the Facebook page dubbed “100,000 against the internet tax”, is an opposition Socialist delegate in a local council institution in Budapest’s 8th district, contrary to his claims.

As a result, he should not give the impression that Sunday’s event was free of any political motives, Kocsis said. Gulyás was personally responsible for the developments on Sunday evening because “holding an event of such scale requires special knowledge beyond enthusiasm for the movement”, he added.

Commenting on US charge d’affaires André Goodfriend attending Sunday’s protest, he said it was “in his right to go about in the city” but “being a diplomat, his presence was surprising.”

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