Hungary’s former nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban has urged his supporters to restore democracy in the country, which he claims has been crushed by the new government.

Orban’s Statement

Orban made his first strong political statements since his landslide election defeat late on Tuesday on Facebook, issuing a ‘Statement of Resistance’ shortly after his Fidesz party said prosecutors had raided offices housing its internet servers.

Prosecutors told Reuters in an emailed response that the action was linked to an investigation into ‘misappropriation and other criminal offences’ at the National Culture Fund (NKA) under Orban’s government.

Orban said that Hungary had ‘ceased to be a democratic state’ after the new centre-right government of Prime Minister Peter Magyar passed a constitutional amendment ending the mandate of the president and the head of the constitutional court.

Orban has denied the corruption allegations and vowed to use all peaceful tools against abuse of power inside parliament and outside parliament.

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