Rolling dollars: Péter Márki-Zay would blame everything, so the dollar left would flee

We didn't know about it, we didn't get any of it, the case of the Péter Márki-Zays - these are the words mostly used by left-wing politicians when they were asked about the 3 billion dollar campaign support from America.

Although the details of the party financing scandal of the left are revealed one after the other, their leading politicians continue to only talk in passing about the HUF 3 billion in support coming from overseas.

Based on the official investigations, it seems certain that this is an attempted intervention that also threatens the country's sovereignty, the like of which has not been seen in the decades since the regime change. At the same time, the opposition politicians act as if they had not even heard that they could campaign with multiples of their official budget before the April vote, and they try to shift the responsibility to Péter Márki-Zay, the president of the Everyone's Hungary Movement (MMM).

IT'S TRUE THAT THROUGH THE ORGANIZATION NAMED ACTION FOR DEMOCRACY (AD), CREATED IN THE HUNGARIAN ELECTIONS, THE MAJOR PART OF THE ALREADY MENTIONED HUF 3 BILLION WENT TO MMM'S ACCOUNT, BUT OF THE HUF 1.8 BILLION, ALL SIX LEFT-WING PARTIES CAMPAIGNED.

 AD led by Dávid Korányi, acting as Gergely Karácsony's chief adviser on city diplomacy, also provided Oraculum 2020 Kft. with a significant sum of HUF 1 billion. The latter is the publisher of EzaLényeg.hu, a propaganda newspaper near the South-East. By the way, most of the American money went to the DatAdat group, which belongs to the interests of the former Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai and the former Minister of Secrets Ádám Ficsor, and which organizes the campaign of the entire left. MMM transferred HUF 1.4, Oraculum HUF 324, and Action for Democracy HUF 147 million to the Bajnais.

Ferenc Gyurcsány, the president of the DK, said in response to the question about the billions coming from America: he did not know that Márki-Zay's movement received foreign campaign funds, and he claimed that the Democratic Coalition did not use any of these amounts.

Origo's full article can be read here.

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