Magyar wages war against Orbán Era corruption.
Corruption from the previous Hungarian government is now being exposed to the public
The Hungarian Government has begun the process of declassifying three thousand government decisions that were kept from the public during the tenure of the former Prime Minister Victor Orbán.
The first batch of documents have exposed 65 billion forints of public funds that were redirected toward the conservative political think tank Századvég, an organisation that Orbán himself co-founded in 1984 as a social sciences journal.
In the first Orbán government in 1998, Századvég became “very important for designing policies”, according to Doctor of Political Science and researcher at Central European University, Zsolt Enyedi.
“For that period one can even speak of a Századvég-governance.”
After the second Orbán government was elected in 2010, Századvég abdicated it’s political authority and transformed into something different, becoming “fabulously rich” according to Zsolt Enyedi. As documents are now showing that the think-tank was receiving high value government contracts to conduct voting polls and research for Fidesz, Orbán’s party.
During this time they conducted dubiously sourced polls that reflected support for Orbáns efforts to maintain strong economic ties with Russia and Asia, centralise governance and separate Hungary from the EU.
Mellár Tamás, a co-founder of Századvég Gazdaságkutató Zrt who resigned in 2011, made comments in 2014 about the research organisation saying that “the whole institute is a money laundrette”.
With what is now being uncovered, Tamás’ comments are looking close to the truth.
