Gergely Karácsony fails many times with his untrue statements - this is how the State Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior, Bence Rétvári, reacted to the mayor's explanation, with which he tried to hide the fact that the situation surrounding the foreign campaign funds received for last year's parliamentary elections is very confusing.
"He does not make any statement regarding the form of this financing, he does not make any statement regarding the fact that this financing is illegal," explained Gergely Karácsony after the secret services discovered that more than half a billion forints had been received by the mayor's movement to your account.
"Long after he withdrew in favor of Péter Márki-Zay, sums still arrived on this account. Moreover, this account was active even after the failed elections. So we can conclude from this that the 99 Movement was actually a cover organization whose purpose was to channel hundreds of thousands of euros and British pounds from otherwise unknown sources into the election," said Ervin Nagy, the XXI. Szazad Institute analyst said.
Meanwhile, their own ally, the LMP, also sharply criticized Gergely Karácsony. According to Tetlák Örs, a member of the Green Party presidency, "the loophole that allows political entities and political parties to carry out direct political and campaign activities hiding behind civil organizations must be eliminated."
"The explanation we have heard so far from the 99 movement does not seem acceptable and comprehensive in every detail to us either. I trust that they will be able to provide a much more believable and acceptable explanation," added the LMP politician.
"He denied that his own movement, the 99 Movement, received foreign donations. It turned out that they did arrive. Now it's obvious. They said on the left that they were being helped by micro-donors, and it turned out that these micro-donors are actually probably American billionaires, mostly a billionaire and other American left-wing circles gathered around him, who tried to overthrow the current Hungarian government with very, very large amounts of money from abroad," he said. State Secretary Bence Rétvári.
