Justice minister blasts opposition MEP over leaked comments on 'anti-govt smear campaign'

Justice Minister Judit Varga on Monday slammed an opposition MEP, Anna Donath, over a leaked recording in which Donath allegedly admits that the opposition had waged a deliberate smear campaign against the government's epidemic response in the spring. Varga said the opposition had waged the campaign knowing that the Fidesz administration "was only doing what a democratically elected government had to do". Citing a leaked recording of the Momentum MEP talking to other party members released by commercial news channel HirTV, Varga said on Facebook that the MEP had "unwittingly admitted" that the opposition had "lied" about the government using its epidemic response law to "build a dictatorship".