In an article from last week, HVG writes as a fact that the Americans intervened in Hungarian public life in 2014. The article presumably refers to the banning scandal, but it is an interesting coincidence that even before the 2014 elections, parties appeared out of nowhere, one of the most memorable was the Együtt 2014 formation, marked by the name of former Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai.

"There are examples of the Americans trying to influence the public life of a country, as happened, for example, in Bulgaria or in Hungary in 2014. In Bulgaria in 2021, several well-known Bulgarian public figures and government officials were sanctioned by the Americans due to corruption, and this thoroughly redrawn the political balance of power," HVG wrote in an article last week. Based on the article as a whole, the author of the article, András Dezső, was probably referring to the so-called banning scandal, who also added to the train of thought that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

its support is too strong for such a move to steer the political processes in a favorable direction for Washington, while running the risk of pushing the Orbán regime even further to the east.

It is an interesting coincidence that even before the 2014 elections, parties and politicians appeared out of nowhere, Gordon Bajnai tried to return to domestic public life for the first time.

In the political formation Együtt - a Korszakváldok Pártja (abbreviated: Együtt 2014), which was founded in 2013, such figures reappeared in Hungarian public life, such as Viktor Szigetvári, who currently works for DatAdat, and former MSZP member Viktor Szigetvári, but Korányi, who has since become much better known Dávid was also one of the founders of the party.

Bajnai's party was measured by more than ten percent in some public opinion polls, and with these "results" they demanded and got a place at the table of the left-wing alliance dominated by the MSZP at the time. The prime minister between 2009 and 2010 ended up in second place on the joint list behind the then president of the MSZP - Attila Mesterházy - but he still did not enter the parliament.

The full article of Magyar Nemzet can be read here.

Author: Márk Kreft-Horváth

Photo: Zoltán Máthé