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OPPOSITION PROPOSES SPECIAL SESSION OF PARLT

 

Groups of the parliamentary opposition are proposing an extraordinary session of parliament over reports of Russian cyberattacks against the foreign ministry, to be held on May 27. Bence Tordai, group leader of the Párbeszéd party, said a recently published document „proves what we had surmised, that Putin’s hackers practically took over the Hungarian government’s IT systems and broke into the whole system of the foreign ministry.” „It has been known since at least 2017 that there is practically no counter-intelligence against Russia; a political decision was made not to protect Hungary against Russia’s hybrid warfare,” Tordai said. „What we see here is not sovereignty but the attitude of a puppet state.” The opposition has drafted a resolution to condemn the Russian attack, including an investigation and ramifications of the incident, Tordai said.