The Hungarian Fidesz opposition party had its office raided by the country’s prosecutor’s office, the party claimed in a Tuesday post on Facebook.
“The Tisza Party’s plan to eliminate Fidesz and with it the resistance to tyranny through political means has failed,” the post read. “Therefore, the Tisza Party is now attempting to legally disable Fidesz.”
The post claimed that the prosecutor’s office had intended to seize “the party’s entire communication system and databases.”
The Fidesz party would not yield to any political or legal threats, and would continue to stand up to the Tisza Party, the post continued.
“This has not happened in Hungary since the end of communism in 1990.”
Hungary president ends term as head of state
On Saturday, Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok signed a constitutional amendment passed by Prime Minister Peter Magyar’s ruling Tisza party that ended his term as head of state, Sulyok said in a statement.
The legislation was part of Magyar’s drive to dismantle former prime minister Viktor Orban’s bastions of power, for which Magyar says he received a strong mandate from voters after ousting the right-wing leader in an April election landslide.
Sulyok said he had no choice but to rubber-stamp the legislation as it respected the letter of the law. However, the former Constitutional Court judge warned the reform has harmed the rule of law in Hungary.
Reuters contributed to this report.
