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Jennifer Rankin in Brussels and Flora Garamvolgyi in Budapest

Hungarian election candidate accuses ruling party of treason over alleged EU leak to Russia

Péter Magyar speaks at an event marking the 1848 Hungarian revolution.
Péter Magyar, a former member of the ruling Fidesz party, is leader of the rival Tisza party. Photograph: Tibor Illyes/EPA

The candidate leading the polls in Hungary’s upcoming elections has said the alleged sharing of confidential EU information between Budapest and Moscow should be investigated as possible treason, while the European Commission has called for “clarifications” over the alleged leaks.

Péter Magyar, a conservative anti-corruption campaigner who is mounting the most serious challenge to Viktor Orbán’s 16-year-long grip on the Hungarian premiership, said the government appeared to be colluding with Russia, “thereby betraying Hungarian and European interests”.

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