According to him, it unwisely appears many times in the reports.
At the beginning of the last week of June, the National Information Center’s (NIK) latest report, which is longer than any previous report, on the 2022 campaign of the opposition alliance that wants to replace the government and its financing was made public. One of the strongest claims in the summary is unconfirmed information that the Datadat group already influenced the opposition primary election in 2021 – but it is not clear from the document how and why. (In the second half of the week, we also dealt with one of the sub-threads of the report, which refers to the Christmas 99 Movement, in detail.)
For what happened this week reacted most Gordon the champion on his Facebook page, who is mentioned several times in the report. He writes that, despite the insinuations, he did not participate in the transactions presented in the report, and has no substantive and direct information about them. He adds that he does not know the presented organizations very well from the inside, apart from any minority ownership.
According to him, the most important thing is to see this report (and its predecessors) as “what its clients intended it to be: a political propaganda publication. After all, the intentionally false statements contained in the material serve clear political goals”. On the contrary, according to him, the facts are that the material does not establish any infringement; on the other hand, he states that Datadat Professional Kft. spent the money paid to him according to the contract in its entirety on what his order stated.
He then lists the claims he believes are false:
According to him, it is a lie that as early as 2014 the then Együty party received any financial support from the American government organization NED. According to him, it is also not true that Datadat manipulated the opposition primary election in 2021 – this was denied by the leaders of Datadat already at the beginning of the week: they did not take part in the conduct, it was managed by an NGO. He also points out that one of the previous secret service reports “practically acknowledged that the grants paid by Action for Democracy to the MMM association were made in accordance with Hungarian legislation.”
According to Bajnai, “the ÁSZ is in a difficult situation when it wants to implement the order of the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office and take money from the opposition parties before the elections, as it cannot legally support this with anything”. He adds: in his opinion, then “state and NER oligarchy subsidies provided to CÖF or Megafon under the same legal title should be doubled from Fidesz in the same way”.
According to him, the case is being talked about “far beyond its merits”, even though he has been working in his profession abroad for nine years, and is only in Hungary on weekends. He believes that he rarely speaks in the public domain about domestic politics, according to him, Fidesz and its court see a risk in him and attack him with fabricated cases, regularly slandering him.
At the end of his post, he writes: As the former prime minister of Hungary, he personally and daily experienced the importance of the national security services in the protection and enforcement of Hungarian interests. “The credibility of these organizations, keeping them outside and above party politics should be our fundamental national value and interest. I am saddened to see that these constitutional and professional aspects have been completely subordinated to the Fidesz power factory in the last few years – unfortunately this is a real national security risk…”.
2023-07-02 10:08:00
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