At yesterday's meeting, the National Security Committee ordered an intelligence investigation into the multibillion-dollar American campaign financing of left-wing parties, Magyar Nemzet has learned.
The discussion took place in a closed session, the details are not known, but in the coming weeks the board will continuously examine the facts arising in the analytical and evaluation work of the services. The attempted illegal foreign intervention caused a great debate among the members of the committee, as the unprecedented case seriously violates Hungary's sovereignty.
Known: Péter Márki-Zay himself recently admitted that in June, i.e. long after the parliamentary elections, the MMM he founded received several hundreds of millions of dollars in support from the United States. As the former joint candidate for prime minister of the left said, they were able to pay "the last bills of the campaign" with the help of this.
Despite the fall of Márki-Zay, the choice was profitable for DatAdat. According to the company's latest report, it cashed HUF two billion in the last business year.
The support came to MMM in one sum from the American foundation called Action for Democracy, from which they already received "three or four larger items" before. Action for Democracy is an NGO founded in the United States at the beginning of 2022, and its president and director is none other than Gergely Karácsony's recently departed City Diplomatic Advisor, Dávid Korányi, who was previously Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai's chief advisor. Meanwhile, Péter Márki-Zay made public the full accounting of the donations received by his movement.
Although it is not clear from whom exactly the sometimes astonishing sums came from, one thing is certain: eight "macro-donations" worth a total of HUF 1.86 billion swelled MMM's account. All of this is worrisome because the Hungarian party financing law expressly prohibits the support of domestic political parties from foreign sources.
Márki-Zay has already admitted that several hundred million forints came to MMM from Action for Democracy even in the summer.
In light of all this, Máté Kocsis announced on September 22 that the faction leaders of the governing parties would initiate the National Security Committee of the National Assembly to review the case of foreign campaign support for left-wing parties. As the leader of the Fidesz faction put it: in the last thirty years, there was no example of what the left-wing prime minister candidate, Péter Márki-Zay, did "carelessly or intentionally", and he admitted quite obviously to the public that his campaign received billions of HUF in support from abroad .
We are facing one of the worst political scandals of this type in the last thirty years, underlined Máté Kocsis.
Source and featured image: Magyar Nemzet
