Fri Dec 2, 2022 – 9:57 am EST
(The Daily Sceptic) — Very few people outside Hungary speak Hungarian, so practically all of the day-to-day news from that country passes us by. But an interesting scandal has been developing there over the last few months, which arguably merits wider attention.
As you may remember, Hungary held an election earlier this year, which was won decisively by Viktor Orbán’s Fidez Party. Their main opposition was the Everybody’s Hungary Movement, led by Péter Márki-Zay.
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Several organisations criticised the elections on the grounds that the incumbent, Viktor Orbán, used elements of the state apparatus to promote his own party. For example, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe described the elections as “well-run” and “competitive,” while noting that they were “marred by the pervasive overlapping of government and ruling coalition’s messaging.”
However, the scandal to which I referred actually concerns the opposition.
In a podcast discussion in August, opposition leader Péter Márki-Zay stated that his movement had recently received money “from America,” which was used to pay some of the campaign bills from the recent elections. The money, he explained, had come through
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