Will the Hungarian foreign minister resign due to the Russian cyber attacks?

Groups of the parliamentary opposition are porposing an extraordinary session of parliament over Russia’s cyber attacks 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 had practically overtaken 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 practically there is 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,” Tordai added.

The opposition has drafted a resolution to condemn the Russian attack, including an investigation and ramifications of the incident, Tordai said.

Hungarian government lied about the Russian attack?

The Democratic Coalition, former PM Gyurcsány’s party, demands Szijjártó’s resignation. aHang.hu already started an online petition and already collected more than 11 thousand signatures. Their target is 15 thousand and they will send their demands to the opposition chairman of the National Security Committee of the Hungarian Parliament, Zoltán Sas.

Several government members and leaders of Orbán’s Fidesz party claimed before the 2022 general elections that the Russians did not commit cyber attacks against the Hungarian foreign ministry. Documents acquired by the Hungarian press clearly show that they did not tell the truth.

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