They would put an end to foreign campaign funds by amending the law

Fidesz will tighten the laws regulating the financing of campaigns and election nomination organizations until May, and the faction is already working on the proposal and the details - Lajos Kósa, the vice president of Fidesz, Mandiner external organizations should not be able to "buy" representatives, mayors, and factions.

If any association, party, or other organization wants to officially become a nominating organization, for example, in the next local government election - i.e. it can appear on the ballot or have a list - it must comply with the rules applicable to parties. In other words, it can only accept financial or other support from Hungarian natural persons.

- It must be ensured that foreigners do not materially influence the voting process, as well as actors who, although not subject to the right to vote (for example, companies, investors), may still have significant interests in the election. Even today, parties can only be supported by Hungarian natural persons, in their case this restriction has existed for several decades, and as long as the so-called nominating organizations were mostly parties, there was no particular problem, the representative pointed out.

Concretely:

significant foreign support was received for the campaigns through organizations that support candidates who are not registered as parties but are applying for political positions. In the case of parliamentary voting, according to the current situation, four billion HUF dollars are involved.

Gergely Gulyás, the Minister in charge of the Prime Minister's Office, spoke about the possible date of the regulation in the latest Government Info. He explained that since the local elections will take place at the end of May or the beginning of June next year, at the same time as the European Parliament elections, so

They insist on maintaining the principle that they do not touch the election rules in the last year before the polls.

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