In his post, Zoltán Kovács stressed that 98 percent of the Hungarian people agreed with the tightening of the law in the national consultation, and therefore the government will stand...
Zsolt Wintermantel addressed Karácsony, asking him whether he did not feel that his silence on the matter was “highly embarrassing”.
Budapest mayor Karácsony’s political movement is reported for the possibly fraudulent disclosure of their funding’s sources by OTP bank
“Gergely Karácsony and the dollar left have yet to absolve themselves of the money laundering scandal,” István Hollik said in a video statement.
Máté Kocsis insisted that the leftist parties had abandoned the political consensus around campaign financing and “made an alliance with foreign billionaires to go around the rules”.
A 52-page document just declassified by the National Information Center suggests current Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony received more than HUF 500 million of foreign money during his election campaign.
According to the investigation conducted by the State Audit Office (ÁSZ), prime ministerial candidate Péter Márki-Zay’s association burned through nearly HUF 1.7 billion of foreign funds on their failed election campaign.
Erik Bánki said there were “strong suspicions” that the donations constituted illegal party financing and that the opposition parties had violated the election law by accepting them.
Máté Kocsis referred to the Fidesz-sponsored “pro-peace” bill recently submitted to lawmakers, and said the declarations contained in the bill were based on the opinion of ordinary Hungarians “expressed time and again”.
“The dollar left is keeping quiet about its 4 billion forints [EUR 10.2m] worth of foreign financing, but the picture is becoming ever clearer,” Fidesz communications director István Hollik said.
Of course, the largest case of campaign financing fraud in Hungary’s democratic history did not trigger the crowd who’s always so concerned for free and fair elections in Hungary.
There was “strong suspicion” that “MEPs of the dollar left-wing”, including Klára Dobrev and István Ujhelyi possibly maintained links with the primary defendant in the scandal.
“Common sense won, the dollar left-wing lost,” the MEPs said in a statement.