Thousands of people took to the streets in Budapest to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Thousands of people demonstrated in Budapest on Tuesday to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, after the broadcast of an audio recording that claims to prove the involvement of a member of his government in a corruption case, reports AFP, taken over by Agerpres.

The call for the demonstration was launched after the broadcast during the day of a recording by Peter Magyar, a lawyer and former collaborator of the Hungarian nationalist power, currently a critic of a government he accuses of corruption.

“We will not allow the biggest political and legal scandal of the last thirty years to be suppressed”, the latter told those present, also requesting the resignation of Attorney General Peter Bolt.

Several thousand people first gathered in front of the General Prosecutor’s Office, then the demonstration grew as it moved towards a square near the Parliament.

Peter Magyar, who was married to former justice minister Judit Varga, posted a two-minute audio recording online Tuesday of two people discussing a corruption investigation involving a former deputy of Ms. Varga’s.

Peter Magyar states that it is a conversation he had in January 2023 with Ms. Varga, his wife at the time, in which she implicates a member of Viktor Orban’s cabinet, Antal Rogan, and his team. “But yes, they got out,” she said among other things. He claims that this is proof of the manipulation of the investigation in question.

Judit Varga responded to the broadcast of the video by accusing Peter Magyar of forcing her to make these statements.

“He read rumors in the press and, because he was terrorizing me for days, I told him what he wanted me to say, to escape,” she said on Facebook.

The government did not react in substance to the broadcast of this recording, the authenticity of which AFP cannot verify.

“A domestic dispute with a woman under the influence has nothing to do with public life,” Viktor Orban’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, was content to declare in a video recording.

Peter Magyar denies his ex-wife’s accusations and says he made the recording after she described a “mafia government”.

He claims to have other records involving members of the Hungarian government.

Publisher: IC

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