The Embassy of the US condemns the listing of ’Soros’s Hungarian agents’

Government close Figyelő published the names of those people who they suspect to work for so-called ‘Soros organisations.’ On the list, one can find all the lecturers of the Central European University, employees of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Amnesty International, Transparency International or the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union. According to hvg.hu, the Embassy of the US condemned the listing on Twitter.

PM Orbán promised retribution after the election

“We are gentle and jolly people, but we are neither blind nor dupes.

After the elections, we will, of course, get our retribution; moral, political and legal retribution, too.”

– said PM Orbán in his speech on the national celebration of March 15^th. However, he added that his supporters should concentrate on retribution only after the elections.

Many considered the above sentences as

a threat towards those who do not support the government’s agenda – e.g. opposition parties.

However, government officials said that it was the result of the election that was meant as moral and political retribution. Furthermore, legal retribution is aimed at the slanderous assertions said during the campaign, which will be followed by legal processes – according to Gergely Gulyás, vice-president of the Hungarian National Assembly.

However, according to hvg.hu, the harassment of NGOs reached a new level in the government-close media. In fact, Figyelő