According to the NGO the Hungarian press is free and the elections are fair but there are alarming phenomena, too. The work of the Hungarian government is somewhat chaotic and the real political dialogue is lacking. The report mentions the anti-corruption fight: while during the Fidesz government there was a strategy outlined in this respect, the programme of ’transparent pockets’ of this government has had no results so far. The report mentions the K&H scandal which it calls Hungary’s greatest money laundering scandal by which public money was embezzled. The report says in the 2002 election all the parties spent more than permitted on the campaign and though the press is free the public media are not unbiased. András Batiz government spokesman said the government was pleased to read the report because Freedom House found the position of political freedom appropriate in Hungary while it found progress in the field of civil rights. János Halász MP (Fidesz) said it was not accidental that the EU also claimed the financing of public media was not compatible with the European norms, and the government just kept promising the amendment of the media law while the financing of the public media involved the possibilityof political pressure and corruption.
Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó
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