In 2006 he called Fidesz parliamentarian Máriusz Révész, who was attacked and injured by police during the 2006 protests in Hungary "Marytirius".
Due to the social unrest of a 2006 scandal involving former Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, many thought that opposing Fidesz representatives would oust the socialists from their seats in Budapest.
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During his ministership, the 2006 protests took place in Hungary, which were a series of anti-government protests triggered by the release of Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány's private speech in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, and had done nothing worth mentioning in the previous four years of governing.