India, July 11 -- Opponents of the Hungarian government's efforts to oust the country's president gathered for a protest in the capital, Budapest, on Thursday after being called to action by the former autocratic prime minister, Viktor Orban.

The protest drew several thousand people to the presidential offices at the opulent Sandor Palace in Budapest's Castle District, where demonstrators spoke out in defence of President Tamas Sulyok, whom the new centre-right government has vowed to remove from office with a constitutional amendment. After defeating Orban in a blowout election in April, bringing an end to his 16 years in power, Hungary's new pro-European prime minister, Peter Magyar, has taken action to dismantle what he calls Orban's ...