Hungarian dictator Viktor Orban on Monday ordered an immediate investigation into reports that his party is colluding with Russian intelligence agents ahead of next month’s big election, specifically demanding they find out who “wiretapped” his foreign minister and exposed the collusion with Russian intelligence agents, rather than if any of his own allies broke the law, Reuters reports.
The reporting – that Budapest’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto would take breaks from private EU meetings to personally call his Kremlin counterpart Sergei Lavrov to keep him posted – could’ve been timed better for Team Orban given that his far-right Fidesz party may really indeed be doomed in the April 12 election. Center-right opposition Tisza party leads most polls with a wide margin.