Prosecutors in Hungary raid offices of Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz and seize databases, says party – as it happened

The opposition⁠party, led by former prime minister, says officers took ‘entire communications system and databases’ Hungary’s opposition ⁠Fidesz party, led by the former prime minister Viktor Orbán, ⁠said that prosecutors raided ‌its ‌servers to look at party’s “entire communications system and databases.” In a post on Facebook, the party said that the intervention was unprecedented in Hungary’s post-communist history, as it blamed “the tyrrany” of the new government, led by Péter Magyar, for the raid. “The Tisza Party’s plan to eliminate Fidesz and with it the resistance to tyranny through political means has failed. Therefore, the Tisza Party is now attempting to legally disable Fidesz,” the statement read. In a holding statement on his Facebook page, PM Magyar responded by saying that “we await the information on what case they are investigating and what was seized.” And, on that note, we will be closing the blog for today. Hungary’s opposition ⁠Fidesz party, led by the former prime minister Viktor Orbán, ⁠said that prosecutors raided ‌its ‌servers to look at party’s “entire communications system and databases” (14:08). Pr