Official statement by TISZA
On Monday, I turned to the Budapest Metropolitan Court and requested that the court immediately prohibit the government-affiliated tabloid Bors from spreading total lies at taxpayers’ expense in four million copies across the country.
As is well known, several courts have previously ruled that government propaganda has been spreading outright falsehoods about TISZA.
Those in power are afraid, and that is why they have now escalated the situation: they intend to spend billions of forints in public money to deliver, in a 16-page publication, the outrageous lies written by Orbán and his circle to every household.
The court must decide on this matter without delay and must prohibit Orbán and his associates from distributing the smear sheet called Bors. Even if the court were to rule weeks later that every word of Orbán’s propaganda is a lie, by then it would be impossible to remove the garbage from people’s mailboxes.
It is entirely reasonable to expect that, in a case of such gravity, the court should not delay its decision any further.