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Radicals Urge Recall Of State Secy Tasnadi
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Budapest, June 20 (MTI) – Radical nationalist Jobbik on Friday urged the recall of the state secretary for law enforcement at the Interior Ministry quoting his alleged role as a secret agent before and during Hungary’s transition to democracy.
News website hvg.hu on Thursday reported that Laszlo Tasnadi had operated as an agent at the Interior Ministry’s III/II state security department.
Jobbik deputy head Elod Novak said in the party’s statement that the employment of a “Communist functionary with a state security past equals to dragging the regime change through the mire”.
Novak said the party had turned to President Janos Ader asking whether he had any previous knowledge of Tasnadi’s past.
Tasnadi told a press conference on Friday afternoon that he had not informed on anybody unless they were “suspected of espionage or terrorism” before 1989.
“I will not resign because there is no reason,” Tasnadi said, and insisted that his whole career was transparent. He said that he had worked for the counter-intelligence at the time, which became part of the National Security Office after the regime change. He mentioned that he had worked as the cabinet chief of Interior Minister Sandor Pinter in the previous government cycle, and said that both Pinter and Prime Minister Viktor Orban were familiar with his career.
