Péter Magyar announces a bill to make available the previously secret bonds of communist secret police agents.
The Hungarian government submitted to the parliament a draft law on making available the files of former secret service agents from the communist era. Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced this on Facebook on Wednesday, writes TASR based on a report by the MTI agency.
“We submitted a bill to parliament to open the files of agents. We promised to see it through. This is how we paid off a decades-long debt,” Magyar wrote in a Facebook post Wednesday morning.
Secret files not published
Hungary, unlike Poland, the Czech Republic or Slovakia, has never officially published the names of secret police collaborators from the communist era, even though several have reached the media in recent years. Individuals have access to their own files, but not to materials about other people, including former whistleblowers.
