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hvg.hu's reporter said that, having reached Kossuth ter, the group listened to Karoly Haber, spokesperson for the Regime Change Forum, who announced the so-called Y Plan. The aim, Haber said, was to create "a situation similar to the taxi blockade" at 13 points throughout the city in front of various unnamed institutions. Groups would be established, he continued, which would receive sealed envelopes. The groups would demand that the government resign within two hours. If this did not happen, they would give a further one-hour ultimatum. Once this had passed, and if the government had still not resigned, the groups would open their envelopes. Despite demands for more information, the spokesman did not say would happen afterwards.

Tomcat, the well-known extremist blogger, who was standing on the podium, asked Karoly Haber: "Are you for real?" Tomcat believes the Y Plan will not bring the government down.

The demonstration was intended primarily to remember events of one year ago, following the leaking of the prime minister's notorious "We fucked up" speech. The procession headed to Kossuth ter, surrounded by police. The procession was preceded by a camera-equipped police vehicle. When the angry crowd turned onto Rakoczi ut, heading towards Astoria, police stopped traffic at Blaha Lujza ter. Huge jams developed in both directions on Rakoczi ut. Traffic was slowed on the Nagykorut as well.

hvg.hu's reporter saw no banners suggesting a formal association with any known organisations, though the group contained several faces familiar from last year's Kossuth ter crowd. Some carried Arpad flags and shouted anti-government slogans.

MTI reported that before the demonstration, Gyorgy Ekrem Kemal, joint president of the Revolutionary National Committee said: "The government must be made to leave even if it takes a continuation of the armed struggle of 1956." Karoly Faber, president of the Regime Change Forum said: "We have gathered today to bring down the government, if that is what everyone wants." He added that the people would be asked on Kossuth ter if they wished to bring down the government, and what means they wished to use to do this.

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The crowd of some 4,000 people on Kossuth ter stood before a podium set up by the Hungarian National Committee 2006. The podium was placed on top of a van with a German licence plate, surrounded by flags in national colours and the Arpad flag. Much of the area had already been closed by the police. The Soviet war memorial and the Hungarian TV headquarters are both protected by separate cordons, with a heavy police presence.