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Monday 17 deceMber 2018

Hungary sees 4th day of protests over overtime, other issues

By KESTER EDDY Thursday for lighting a flare court for administrative
Associated Press during a protest. matters.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The labor code amend- A government spokesman,
Several thousand protest- ments that sparked the asked to comment on Sun-
ers marched through Bu- protests increase the maxi- day's demonstration, said
dapest for a fourth day to mum number of overtime in an email that citizens
oppose laws promoted by hours that companies can had a constitutional right to
the Hungarian government demand from workers in a assemble freely as long as
that critics say will restrict year from 250 to 400. The laws weren't broken in the
workers' rights and have changes, intended to off- process.
undermined democracy. set Hungary's growing la- On Thursday, some pro-
The protesters chanted bor shortage, also give em- testers threw bottles and
anti-government slogans ployers up to three years in- smoke bombs at officers in
and braved sub-zero tem- stead of 12 months to settle riot gear guarding the neo-
peratures Sunday while Vice-chairperson of Momentum party Anna Donath holds up a payments of accrued over- Gothic parliament build-
gathered in front of parlia- smoke grenade during an anti-government protest in the down- time. ing. Police said two officers
ment, where speakers de- town of Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2018. Since the first protest on were injured.
nounced revised overtime Associated Press Wednesday night and oth- The demonstrations have
rules that lawmakers ap- ers held Thursday and Fri- attracted disparate partici-
proved Wednesday. "Strike, strike, strike!" "We will not tire. We won't day, the demonstrations pants from across Hunga-
The crowd became in- Perhaps as a result, the go home. Today we are have evolved to encom- ry's political spectrum. They
creasingly angry as speak- event's final speaker was twice as much as yester- pass other policies of Prime include members of Jobbik,
ers called for the demon- more defiant. Anna Don- day. We are (growing) day Minister Viktor Orban's gov- which started out as a radi-
strations to remain dignified ath , the daughter of an by day. This is a mass com- ernment, including another cal right movement and
and peaceful, chanting outspoken minister, lit a munity." bill passed Wednesday has worked to reframe itself
"We've had enough!" and smoke flare and declared, Police detained Donath on that establishes a separate as a "peoples'" party.q

Kremlin candidate wins Far East

governorship in repeat vote

By MATTHEW BODNER try Medvedev called Ko- rage over suspected vot-
Associated Press zhemyako to congratulate ing fraud, the Russian Cen-
MOSCOW (AP) — Russians him on the victory. tral Election Commission
living in the far eastern re- President Vladimir Putin quickly moved to annul the
gion of Primorsky Krai elect- tapped Kozhemyako to results, claiming they were
ed a Kremlin-backed can- stand in as governor of Pri- impossible to verify as both
didate for governor Sun- morsky Krai and run in the sides accused the other of
day after the results from election in place of the for- improprieties.
a previous election were mer acting governor, An- Tarasenko was not among
thrown out due to alleged drei Tarasenko. the four candidates who
voting fraud. Tarasenko, who represent- competed in Sunday's
Local election officials said ed the ruling United Russia vote.
the acting governor of the party during a gubernato- Andrei Ishchenko, the
region, Oleg Kozhemyako, rial election in September, Communist candidate in
won 61.8 percent of the appeared ready to lose the September vote elec-
votes after more than 99 the election to a Commu- tion, did not run again, ei-
percent of the ballots had nist challenger who had ther. His party boycotted
been counted in the Rus- received 98 percent of the Sunday's election and he
sian region on the Sea of vote after nearly half of the failed to gather the re-
Japan. ballots were counted. But quired signatures for an
The election commission by the time 99 percent of independent bid for gov-
said Andrei Andreichenko ballots were tallied, officials ernor.
of the nationalist Liberal declared that Tarasenko The election commission
Democratic Party came in had come back to win reported a 39.6 percent
second with 25.2 percent the election by over 7,500 voter turnout for Sunday's
of the vote. votes. election, up from 29.2 per-
Russian Prime Minister Dmi- In the face of growing out- cent in September.q