According to the Center for Fundamental Rights, based on the report of the Hungarian Information Centre, it has been conclusively proven that the Hungarian left was ‘bought with rolling dollars.’
In a Facebook post on Monday, the research institute said that the Information Center had revealed further details of the most severe financing scandal in Hungarian political history. The report confirms what could be suspected before: ‘In exchange for dollars, [opposition leaders] from Gergely Karácsony and Péter Márki-Zay to Ferenc Gyurcsány, would have dragged our country into war.’
The report points out that despite all denials, the election campaign of the left was funded by sources coming from the American Left. Moreover,
the overseas Democratic elite, led by George Soros, had a stake in and direct influence
over the company DatAdat, which managed the opposition campaign. It appears that the Americans did not only give orders to Gyurcsány and others to advocate for war, but also ‘kept them on a short leash’ and had first-hand information about every detail of the preparation for the election.
At the same time, ‘Gergely Karácsony and his movement were exposed’ as well, while also being involved in ‘the circulation of rolling dollars.’ The 99 Movement, associated with Karácsony‘s name, transferred nearly 620 million forints to ‘DatAdat connected to Gordon Bajnai and other actors of the Gyurcsány government,’ the post reads. ‘This also shows that it is not an accidental slip of the tongue when the mayor says that our country is at war with Russia,’ the Centre for Fundamental Rights wrote in the post, accompanied by an image George Soros, and Alexander Soros, with the caption ‘In the trap of the open society dollars.’
According to Erik Tóth, the research director of the Center for Fundamental Rights, based on the report of the Information Centre, opposition political leaders indeed knew about the support coming from foreign donors. He explained that the Information Centre has already released three batches of documents, which reveal how the six political formations of the opposition alliance, supplemented by the Everybody’s Hungary Movement, implemented their own campaign activities and financed joint campaign activities from the end of 2021 to the end of 2022.
The current report documents various financial transactions, the issuing of invoices by the campaign financers to each other, and the fact that
Action for Democracy transferred funds worth over three billion forints
from the Everybody’s Hungary Movement to a company named Oraculum 2020 Ltd. This confirms that ‘there was a political circuit that clearly intended to utilise the cooperation of these six parties and the Everybody’s Hungary Movement for gaining influence,’ explained Erik Tóth. The analyst stated that based on the report, opposition political leaders must have been aware of where these support funds came from, and moreover, consciously tried to incorporate them into their campaigns by taking advantage of the legal loopholes.
The current report also clarifies that the invoicing and payments started during the pre-election period, not the campaign period, Erik Tóth announced, noting that this is how the 99 Movement, founded and led by Mayor Gergely Karácsony, received over 500 million forints of ‘suspicious funds.’
According to Erik Tóth, the Hungarian branch of the DatAdat group was intentionally established to participate in the joint management of the opposition campaign from the pre-election period to the parliamentary elections. In order to achieve this, DatAdat spent over 3 billion forints, he said, adding that these funds did not come from Hungarian taxpayers but from external financiers, potentially linked to the American left.
The analyst argued that this contradicts the opposition’s claim of having financed the campaign through micro-donations, since the day after the establishment of Action for Democracy, the owners transferred 25 million forints to an advertising agency associated with the left. Furthermore, in the first week, the company transferred over 270 million forints to ‘various actors’ to finance their campaign activities.
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