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SOCIALISTS IN INTERNAL PROBE INTO FAKE VIDEO

 

The opposition Socialist Party has started an internal investigation into a video posted on Facebook showing a woman who claimed to be working for the ambulance service talking to a party lawmaker about the situation in Hungarian health care, commercial broadcaster ATV said. The party’s deputy leader, László Szakács, told ATV that Socialist Party communications staff decided to make the video, and he insisted that those who made it bore responsibility. He added that the MP in question, Lajos Korózs, was not at fault. He said Korózs had received many letters from the relatives of the patients affected by the government’s decision to empty hospital beds to make way for any potential Covid-19 patients, adding that, in his view, the lawmaker was not aware of any wrongdoing and should not have to resign.