Rally against prime minister turns violent
Hungarian police and rioters clashed in Budapest after thousands of people rallied to demand that Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany resign.
The opposition rally in the capital had been peaceful, but fighting flared when protesters later tried to prevent the arrest of one of their leaders.
Water cannon and tear gas were used to clear the streets of several thousand mostly far-right radicals who threw stones at police and set fire to trash cans and a barricade.
Gyurcsany’s government has broken campaign promises by raising taxes and cutting spending.
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