As Mandíner reported on the photo that Dániel Bohár posted on Wednesday. Ferenc Gyurcsány and Klára Dobrev can be seen here, and Péter Kolosi, who is currently the deputy general manager of RTL Klub, can be seen behind them. He knew about Kolosi that Klára Dobrev's high school friend, Gyurcsány's wedding witness, is how he now runs RTL Klub, which he claims is an independent medium .
This is not the only thread for the media
During their administration before 2010, the Gyurcsánys tried to influence the public mood through the media through their informal connections. RTL Klub was connected not only to Kolosi, but also to András Batiz, who first worked as a television presenter and then became the government spokesman for the Gyurcsánys.
But the Gyurcsány-Dobrev couple had personal connections not only with RTL, but also with TV2, through András Bárdos and his wife Krista Máté. Máté Kriszta was attending the TV major of the University of Theater and Film Arts (then still a college) together with RTL's Péter Kolosi, in fact, according to her, they were such good friends with Kolosi that "everyone thought we would get married sooner or later".
And the close relationship has continued ever since, Krisztina Máté is currently working at RTL Klub as a producer (the show Between Sharks).
During Gyurcsány's administration, however, Krisztina Máté and her husband, András Bárdos, were the presenters of Tények. Máté soon met Klára Dobrev through his university friend, Péter Kolosi, and the relationship became so good that they traveled together several times: on New Year's Eve 2003, for example, Ferenc Gyurcsány, who was still working as the prime minister's chief adviser at the time, was a guest of the Melia Las Americas hotel in Cuba alongside the then prime minister Péter Medgyessy. his wife, Klára Dobrev, who was Medgyessy's chief of staff during the election campaign, and András Bárdos and his wife, Krisztina Máté. Bárdos said that they have been celebrating New Year's Eve with the same group of friends for years, and this is what happened now. more about this here.
The other such joint appearance was Tina Turner's concert on February 7-8, 2009, to which Ferenc Gyurcsány also visited, and this was also acknowledged by the government spokesman at the time. András Bárdos was also there at the concert, when Magyar Nemzet wrote this, Bárdos stated that "accidentally" ran into Ferenc Gyurcsány in the buffet.
Index previously wrote about Bárdosék's relationship with Gyurcsány. According to the newspaper, the Bárdos are close friends with Ferenc Gyurcsány, the two married couples often meet on Balaton weekends and holidays. The paper also mentions the Cuban vacation and the Tina Turner concert, and recalls that in an interview with Viktor Orbán in February 2007, Bárdos did not remember that Ferenc Gyurcsány had told him during the TV siege that he had personally given instructions to protect the building.
independent" lobbying the Gyurcsánys ?
Manager Magazin wrote during Gyurcsány's prime ministership that the heads of commercial TV stations did not want to wait until the beginning of May 2006 for their concession contracts to be extended by the National Radio and Television Board (ORTT), so in the year before that they continuously lobbied for a decision favorable to them as soon as possible. for making it.
According to the cited article, while RTL Klub's lobbying team "toughness" , TV2 chose honesty as its negotiation strategy. A market participant claimed that the RTL Club did not shy away from blackmail during informal meetings with leading politicians. The article also mentions that one of the best high school friends and wedding witness of the prime minister's wife, Klára Dobrev, was Péter Kolosi, the program director of RTL Klub at the time, while the Gyurcsánys go on vacation together with the married couple András Bárdos and Krisztina Máté, known from TV2.
Source and opening image: mandiner.hu
