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Interior Minister: Time to declassify parts of ex-PM Gyurcsany “lies speech” report
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Budapest, January 8 (MTI) – It’s time to declassify a report by secret services in connection with the leaking of the speech of ex-premier Ferenc Gyurcsany, Interior Minister Sandor Pinter told commercial news channel HirTV on Tuesday evening.
Gyurcsany’s infamous speech to a closed event of the Socialist party in Balatonoszod, in which he admitted to lying about the state of the economy to win the election, was first broadcast on Hungarian Radio in September 2006. It included the remarks: “we did nothing for four years … we lied morning, night and evening. I don’t want to do it anymore.”
The speech then triggered prolonged anti-government riots and demonstrations. The report cannot fully be declassified and released to the public as the privacy rights of those involved must be respected, said Pinter.