00:01This is how it looked originally, and this is how it looked when Peter Heindl was finished.
00:06Heindl regularly pastes over the giant posters paid for and displayed by the government during Hungary's parliamentary election campaign.
00:14He is convinced that these posters amount to election fraud.
00:20In a democracy, there is no doubt that the government, or the government, would be able to put a political
00:28policy in the public.
00:31And yet, this is what's been happening in Hungary.
00:33Until recently, thousands of these posters appeared across the country.
00:37All paid for with Hungarian taxpayers' money ahead of the election on April 12th.
00:42They show Manfred Weber and Ursula von der Leyen of the EU pointing at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's open hand.
00:50The caption reads, let's send a message to Brussels, we won't pay,
00:55implying that the EU is asking Hungary for money to support Ukraine, but Hungary is refusing.
01:01Ezek a kormány plakátok, ezek gyakorlatilag a Fidesz-nek a választási propaganda szövegeit súlykolják.
01:09Nem lehet ketté választani a kettőt, ugyanis hát a kormányfő az egyben a Fidesz nevű pártnak az elnöke.
01:16Tehát gyakorlatilag a két, tehát az állami propaganda, ami még egyszer mondom illegális, és a párt propaganda az ugyanazt mondja.
01:24So, Heindl and his team spring into action.
01:28First, they cut out images of a zebra's head and the faces of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
01:32and his close childhood friend, Lorenz Mezaros, who is now a billionaire and widely viewed as an oligarch.
01:38Then, they paste over the government's posters. But they have to be quick.
02:07This time the police didn't come, so Orbán's face was pasted over that of Volodymyr
02:12Maria Zelensky, Manfred Weber disappeared behind Lorenz Mezaros, and Ursula von der Leyen's face was covered with the head of
02:19a zebra.
02:19But why a zebra? Because the animal has become a symbol of the wealthy elite, after several zebras were spotted
02:25a few months ago on the Orbán family's newest estate.
02:28Below the images, in red, is a new text that reads, a campaign poster paid for with state money is
02:35election fraud.
02:36I'm afraid to say that I have to do this. I have to say that I have to do this.
02:44Heindl is a lawyer and teacher, but he didn't just start correcting the posters, as he puts it, recently.
02:50In 2015, when large numbers of refugees arrived in Europe and in Hungary, the government referred to them as migrants
02:57and sent them messages on posters.
02:59And then there was a letter, which was written, that if you go to Hungary, you don't have to do
03:05the Hungarian work.
03:06We wrote a very big letter, which was the last letter of 6 Peter's letter.
03:11It was the letter that if you go to Hungary, we wrote that you need your work.
03:17So that Orbán Viktor would be able to stand all five children on his feet.
03:22Until 2019, Hungarian courts treated poster vandalism as a form of free expression.
03:28Since then, however, it's been classified as a criminal offense.
03:32Heindl has already been found guilty twice, though he ultimately received no fine.
03:37He believes this is because he told the court he would rather go to prison than pay.
03:42The cost of his activism all adds up.
04:09Heindl is determined and intends to continue his activism at least until the end of the year.
04:14Parliamentary election on April 12th, because he believes he is in the right, both legally and morally.
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