Hungary's New Leader Reveals Viktor Orban Was Paying CPAC

[TommyT139]

Source: The New Republic

Peter Magyar called the payments a "crime" and said his government would stop the funds.

Turns out the Hungarian government has been bankrolling the Conservative Political Action Conference for years.

Peter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban Sunday in a landslide, told reporters Monday that the outbound leader had diverted Hungarian taxpayer funds toward financing the American Republican conference.

Magyar noted that his government will be investigating Orban's expenditures, and will no longer finance CPAC or other right-wing institutions abroad.

Read more: https://newrepublic.com/post/209035/hungary-prime-minister-victor-orban-paying-cpac

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No paywall: https://archive.ph/rwNXz
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Edited to fix subject line, because in the copying & pasting, my device omitted the "a"-with-accent from Orban's name, as spelled in the New Republic headline.
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Edited again because DU wasn't recognizing the "a"-with-accent either. Peter Magyar's name has a similar issue.