Behind the new hope of the left, the data team marked by the name Gordon Bajnai has already appeared, according to the data protection information of the Magyars' page.
It seems that there is nothing new under the sun: figures connected to Datadat Professional Kft. regularly appear behind the repeatedly appearing left-wing messiahs. It is known that the Hungarian business of the international company group belongs to the former advisor of Ferenc Gyurcsány, Tibor Dessewffy, as well as former Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai, former Secretary of State Viktor Szigetvári and former Minister of Secrets Ádám Ficsor.
In the past month, Péter Magyar has now continued his politicking within an official framework: by establishing a community and an association, as well as taking over a party, he finally stepped onto the political stage. Already on February 29, 2024, the talpramagyarok.hu website was registered, which serves to present and represent the community and the association.
The Datadat circle immediately appears in the website's data management information, where two related entities are also mentioned.
Estratos Digital GmbH is a digital agency based in Vienna that mainly focuses on helping progressive political movements. Its managing director is Ádám Ficsor, the former Minister of Secrets in the Gordon Bajnai government and the leading figure of the Datadat group of companies.
The company data reveals that the company appearing on the website of Péter Magyar's community is essentially nothing more than the former Austrian subsidiary of the Datadat group of companies, Datadat GmbH, which was renamed with noble simplicity by the Ádám Ficsors.
The ownership of the company has not changed, the managing director is still the former left-wing intelligence minister, and the registered office of Estratos Digital is the same as the legal predecessor Datadat GmbH.
It should be remembered that a significant part of the rolling dollars sent from America came to this company registered in Austria. Datadat GmbH was commissioned by Péter Márki-Zay's Movement for Everyone's Hungary to run the left-wing culture-changing campaign. The Vienna-based company pocketed no less than HUF 1.4 billion from the movement of the opposition prime minister candidate.
Another entity that stands out in the data protection information of the Péterés Magyar website is Lundadonate.org, or Lunda for short, which is a fundraising platform. This product was developed by Datadat and provides a complex, multi-functional tool for fundraisers.
On the English-language page of Lunda, in the About us menu item, Datadat was previously listed as the parent company, and now Estratos is listed.
Lunda is therefore entirely a creation of Datadat, except that the Bajnais wanted to hide the traces of it for some reason.
According to the data of web.archive.org, a portal dealing with the archiving of Internet pages, in May 2023 it was still mentioned in the "About" menu item of lundadonate.org that their parent company is Datadat, which is "a political consulting and technology company that works with progressive causes and political candidates worldwide ".
All of this changed sometime between May and September 2023, and the text that can still be read today appeared, according to which Lunda's parent company is the aforementioned legal successor, Estratos Digital.
Lunda is mainly active in the arena of international politics: the interface can be customized in order to be functional in all languages and payment systems. In the "Frequently Asked Questions" (FAQ) menu of the website, they also take on the community with the Action Network, which is used for fundraising by Joe Biden's campaign staff and the liberal American Democratic Party.
The emergence of the Datadat circle behind Péter Magyar is not surprising in light of the fact that Mandiner.hu wrote: security people who can be linked to Zoltán Köves served at the events of the new favorite of the left. Köves is the owner of Parter Event Kft., well-known on the left, their main activity is personal protection and the provision of events, they work for many left-wing municipalities.
Parter also benefited from the rolling dollars: Péter Márki-Zay and Datadat also gave it commissions during the campaign for the 2022 parliamentary elections.
Datadat, who goes by the name Gordon Bajnai, is a recurring character in left-wing campaigns. Their first big move was the development of the chatbot on Ferenc Gyurcsány's Facebook page. And since the 2019 local government elections, they are playing an increasingly important role. They were responsible for the digital campaign of the United Left before the 2022 parliamentary elections.
Between the two elections and since then, Datadat has been helping several parties and left-wing organizations in their work on various petitions. In such cases, the author of the petitions typically requests the data of the left-wing voters for later use, which are used for mobilization before voting, for the delivery of personalized messages, and later for contact.
The Datadat group of companies was the biggest beneficiary of the rolling dollars, indirectly and directly pocketing more than HUF 1.8 billion dollars and essentially running the campaign of the entire left.
The National Tax and Customs Administration is investigating the case. Following the intervention in Hungarian domestic politics, the government created the Sovereignty Protection Office so that something like this could not happen again unnoticed.
Cover photo: Péter Magyar, a lawyer, gives a speech at the meeting announced in downtown Budapest at Vértanúk square
MTI/Péter Lakatos
