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Oppositions call for security cttee meeting over Orban’s alleged informant past
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Budapest, March 9 (MTI) – The opposition Socialists have called for parliament’s national security committee to be convened over remarks made by businessman Lajos Simicska concerning the prime minister’s activities during the communist era. The radical nationalist Jobbik party called on Orban to resign unless he can refute Simicska’s accusations.
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Simicska: Orban said he refused to enroll as spy but “now I don’t know what to think”
Zoltan Lukacs, the party’s deputy leader, told a press conference that Simicska, in a Sunday interview to the Mandiner blog, had implied that Orban may have joined the communist secret services.
Orban told Simicska spies had asked him to sign up but he had refused. Simicska said he had believed Orban but “now I don’t know what to think.”
Lukacs said that Simicska’s “gravest statement” was that documents supposedly proving Orban’s enrollment in the secret services are kept by the Russian authorities. If this were the case, Hungary’s sovereignty could be compromised since it could be blackmailed by the Russian authorities, Lukacs insisted.
Simicska said in the interview that Orban “reported on him” to the communist authorities with his knowledge during their military service in the 1980s. Simicska told Mandiner that the authorities had put him under surveillance during the communist era, and while performing military service he was shown a “thick batch of files”. Orban had voluntarily told him he was writing the reports and they had discussed what to include, he said. After they were discharged, Orban told him the authorities had tried to enroll him, but he refused. Simicska said that he had believed him but “now I don’t know what to think.”