Opposition parties claim that Peter Markey G did not inform them of US support for the campaign. Marky Z told our portal that the final amount of HUF 1.8 billion was a “pleasant surprise” for him as well. At the same time, he confirmed that the expenses had been agreed upon with the six parties. According to this, Labor for Democracy was essentially financial security in the opposition campaign, the “man” who elegantly pays the bills left after the party – no matter how big.
No opposition party even knew about supporting the campaign with HUF 1.8 billion coming from America Peter Markey Z He didn’t talk about it publicly all summer in a podcast – This is evident from the information of the parties that were sent on our portal questions.
The background of American money has been discussed in detail previously inform us: Accordingly, the opposition campaign consisted financially of the part contributed by the parties and provided by Marki Zai’s All-Hungarian Movement. The numbers looked roughly like this:
- The total cost of the opposition campaign was about 3.5 billion HUF.
- Of these, the six parties covered a total of HUF 1-1.2 billion. This amount was what they received as support from the state after the Joint List and individual candidates.
- Hungary got the rest, about 2.2 – 2.4 billion HUF.
- The latter item came together from several sources, and larger and very small small donations were also received. The HUF 1.8 billion came from Action for Democracy (AFD), an organization founded in February this year. According to the AFD claim, it collected support from Hungarian nationals abroad, but it is not known exactly from whom. Markie G. previously confirmed to 24.hu: No request has been made by the Foundation for support.
Hungarian: Someone walked away with that money, or God knows what I spent it on
In early November Peter UngarThe co-chair of the LMP committee told 24.hu in his interview: “If we, the free, had known that a lot of foreign money had come in, we would not have contributed so much to the opposition campaign. Then we said that they would solve it. What kind of thing is this?! No one knows about this. I was there at the party chairman’s meetings and no one knew about it.” “. He also commented: “Where is the money anyway? Because it’s not in the campaign.” According to him, “Either someone will walk away with the money, or God knows what I spent it on, but it was not a successful campaign.”
According to the Libyan politician, the party leaders preparing to change the government were not aware of the financial framework of their campaign.
Parties: We didn’t know anything, and he didn’t tell us anything
Next, we would like to know if the parties all see the issue of supporting the government’s campaign for change in the same way as Ungar, and whether the LDP’s claim that they know nothing about American money is founded. the answers:
- Democratic Alliance: “The KDP did not receive such support. We also learned from the press that MMM received foreign donations, which Peter Markey-Zay and his staff did not show us during the campaign. Peter Markey-Zay himself admitted that none of the opposition parties benefited from this Subsidies, only MMM.
- Jobbik: “Because not all the details of the case are known to the public, we cannot provide meaningful answers to the questions. We do not want to indulge in fantasies, speculations and assumptions, but at the same time, it is important to note that in recent days the ruling parties voted to reject Jobbik’s proposal, which was It was created specifically to prevent any kind of foreign influence through local civic organizations with regard to the elections.”
- We called the guy who left the party for the summer Peter Jacob who led Jobbik during the campaign. He said, “I had not received any information about the money in question, so I was unaware of its existence.”
- Momentum: “The mentioned sources did not come to Momentum, but as for the Péter Márki-Zay movement, we had no relevant information about them, we learned of their existence from the same podcast as the public.” They added: The campaign of the individual party candidates was funded primarily by Momentum, and secondarily by the candidates themselves and by the six-party joint budget. “According to party laws, Momentum only accepts donations from individuals with Hungarian citizenship, and we will publish the list of donors worth more than HUF 500,000 in the Annual Report, just like every year, for 2022 as well.” They added: As before, during the current campaign, Momentum has complied with laws regarding party and campaign finance, “and our firm position is that everyone should operate in this way.”
- The Socialist Party also claimed that it had no knowledge of foreign funds. “MSZP did not follow up on what Peter Markey-G and MMM got from him.” They added: The MSZP, like everyone else, learned of the amount from Márki-Zay’s statements. The party’s candidates have not received, and cannot receive, funds from American sources for their campaigns. “The MSZP has always paid special attention to full compliance with the legislation applicable to its activities, and this was the case this year as well. The Chinese Communist Party cannot and has not accepted foreign support,” they wrote.
- Barbscheid also stated that they had no information on HUF 1.8 billion in foreign aid, and that its candidates had not received any of it. They also added: They have always followed the relevant regulations and will continue to do so in the future.
In our previous article, we wrote that SMS campaigns, Facebook ads, and billboard campaigns without party slogans can come from Markie Zayk coffers, which can also cover the rent for the opposition campaign center, as well as sources of data-related expenses. , which operates as a social media agency and also performs advisory functions. Perhaps it was MMM subsidies. At the same time, all this raises the question: among opposition politicians who have seen more than one campaign
As a key member of the campaign team put it in our previous article: “We were incredibly late in setting up the funds. We knew the parties’ money wouldn’t be enough, because only a low-budget campaign would come out of the party’s coffers.”
Marky Z was also surprised by the final amount
We also contacted Peter Markey G about the statements of the opposition parties. According to the former prime ministerial candidate
If the Hungarian media, as well as the American, already knew this fact during the campaign period, I see little possibility that this is a secret to the parties who check the MMM campaign’s expenses daily for their own benefit. I visited the state and did not arrange the expenses and did not agree to them, but the campaign management that made daily decisions in consultation with the six parties every day and thus ensures, for example, that there is no illegal financing of parties that can occur.
Hódmezővásárhely Mayor also says that the total amount of the subsidy is 1.8 billion
I didn’t know at the time either, because we weren’t given any promises about this up front, we just did the brief when we finished the first transparent campaign accounting in galactic political history, which we’re very proud of. The amount of support was also a pleasant surprise for us, for which we are very grateful on behalf of all Hungarians. It is unfortunate that in terms of available media surfaces and campaign spending, we still barely reach one or two percent of the resources of the Fidesz campaign machine, and for this reason we have not been able to effectively refute the false slanders of the state party.
In any case, the post-payment would have taken place because the subcontractors and companies involved in the campaign billed the work done in many cases only after Election Day, even weeks later. Even by comparison, it takes several weeks to complete the payment: that’s why MMM could have paid for the campaign in May or even in the summer.
Finally, Marquis-Z added, “What exactly have we spent $2.5 billion to support local Hungarians and foreigners on From the 42,000-line item report Even Peter Ungar and DK know full well, not to mention the state of the party eavesdropping on its opponents with spy weapons, watching and operating with embedded traitors. Anyone facing a government made up of the most corrupt criminals in Hungary’s thousand-year history can be sure that their bravery will not go unpunished – we knew what we were doing and were exposing not only ourselves, but also our loved ones. Victor Urban His revenge. This is why we insist on strict adherence to laws and complete transparency, which is unprecedented not only in the history of Fides, but also in the history of the internal opposition.
Because of the support from us at the moment police investigation, respectively Secret service The investigation is also underway. Mattie Kocsis Announced last Thursday: after the leaders of the secret services presented their first report on external financing of the opposition campaign at the meeting of the National Security Committee, the leader of the Fidesz faction requested that the document be declassified until 2051. Zoltan SassChairman of the Board of Directors of Jobbik is for the index question He said: support decoding.
