Two redacted secret-service reports into the 2006 “lies speech” were published on the website of the Constitutional Protection Office. Accordingly, they raise the possibility that a Socialist politician was behind the leak.

Gyurcsány’s poll ratings had already begun to decline after he won the 2006 election on the back of austerity measures.

When a speech he made behind closed doors to the Socialist Party was leaked, however, his popularity nose-dived, and the speech in which he admitted to lying about the state of the economy before the general election unleashed a wave of violent street protests.

Gyurcsány called on Interior Minister Sándor Pintér to bring the entire documentation related to the leaking of the “lies speech” into the public domain. In a weekend posting on his Facebook page, Gyurcsány accused Pintér of manipulating the evidence, and, “worse, of lying”. “I determinedly reject Pintér’s current innuendos and contentions,” he wrote.

Attila Mesterházy, leader of the Socialist Party, called on the government to stop using the secret services for campaign purposes, and to bring the entire report into the open instead of a “distorted” version of it. The ruling Fidesz party’s head of communications, Máté Kocsis, told a news conference that Gyurcsany had “lied about his lies speech”.

Now the left wing is condemning the minister of the interior for publishing a report which was prepared when Gyurcsány and Bajnai were in power, he said. Kocsis dismissed concerns about the partial publication, saying the office had had to take into account aspects such as personal rights and national security when releasing the material.

The most important issue connected with the “lies speech” has already surfaced, Fidesz spokeswoman Gabriella Selmeczi said: namely that Gyurcsany had himself admitted in his speech to “lying morning, noon and night ...”

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