Fidesz asks government to investigate US funds received by ‘sham’ civil organizations

Máté Kocsis said a commissioner would be tasked with travelling to the United States to recover all relevant documents and to regularly brief the government on the data that will then be made public.

Fidesz group leader Máté Kocsis said on Wednesday that the parliamentary group of ruling Fidesz has asked the government to appoint a commissioner to investigate US funds received by “sham” civil organizations, media outlets, activists and “political actors” in the past ten years.

Calling from the parliamentary group’s session in Balatonfüred, in western Hungary, Kocsis said the commissioner would be tasked with travelling to the United States to recover all relevant documents and to regularly brief the government on the data that will then be made public.

Kocsis said that Elon Musk had “busted” the US left as he had made public documents showing that they had spent “millions of dollars to fund those spreading the liberal ideology worldwide, including Hungary, and on those they expected to topple the incumbent government.”

“A foreign state has spent millions of dollars on toppling the democratically elected Hungarian government. They hired our compatriots for the job. This is a network of political and media corruption that must be unveiled … we must know which media platforms, NGOs, self-styled independent institutions and activists took part in this…” Kocsis said.