Hungary Raids Orban's Fidesz Party Servers in Graft Probe
Prosecutors said the raid is part of a criminal case over alleged embezzlement tied to the National Cultural Fund.
- On Tuesday, the Hungarian Fidesz opposition party reported that the country's prosecutor's office raided their office to secure the party's servers.
- Fidesz asserted on Facebook that the prosecutor's office intended to seize their entire communication system and databases, claiming the Tisza Party is attempting to legally disable them.
- This action follows Prime Minister Peter Magyar's April election victory, which ousted Viktor Orban and initiated a campaign to dismantle the former leader's established power bases.
- On Saturday, Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok signed a constitutional amendment passed by the Tisza Party that ended his own term, though he warned the reform harmed the rule of law in Hungary.
- Fidesz officials stated, "This has not happened in Hungary since the end of communism in 1990," emphasizing the historic severity of the ongoing political conflict.
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EU far right cries foul, Commission unfazed about Magyar's purgatorium
Orbán allies across Europe have raised concerns over Hungarian democracy after the president's mandate was ended and Fidesz's headquarters raided as part of a corruption probe, but the European Commission appears broadly aligned with a push to dismantle Orbán's political operation.
The Hungarian prosecutor's office entered the premises of the opposition Fidesz and seized servers and communication systems as part of an investigation into the spending of around 44.5 million euros from the National Fund for Culture. While Viktor Orbán claims that this is a politically staged case against his party, Budapest journalist Jozef Makai assesses that such statements are the result of Fidesz losing importance every day.
Fidesz on the brink of collapse as Orbán’s puppets fall, while Magyar makes his first major blunder (102 days since the election)
Ex-president Tamás Sulyok self-terminates by signing Fundamental Law. Péter Magyar has made his first serious mistake. Fidesz’s server infrastructure has been seized. The prosecutor general has resigned. Fidesz may have lost 900,000 voters since the elections. The Tisza government is moving full steam ahead, and it appears that it has managed to rid itself of the main puppets of the Viktor Orbán system far more easily than many had assumed. Last…
This week, prosecutors in Hungary requested a raid on the data center of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party. Orbán, who lost the election after 16 years in power, calls the new regime a tyranny. "This new political system is not a democracy," Orbán said, according to the AP.
The former Hungarian Prime Minister accuses the judiciary of a political investigation after a search of his party's databases Fidesz. The prosecutors claim to be acting in the context of an investigation of corruption linked to a public body suspected of embezzlement.
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