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You don't know what they're doing.

I didn't become a police officer to serve a corrupt system.

A mafia system.

This is how the fate of the country is decided.

We're picking this up now.

Hello?

It will be done around nine,

he'll tell us everything.

Very good.

I got 11.8 million for the whole thing.

You are so much the master of your vote,

as much as you are the master of your life.

Those who live in such circumstances,

they come in very handy during elections.

I don't want them to be taken away.

THE PRICE OF A VOTE

And then we arrived in Tiszabura, at the settlement,

but we might as well have arrived in any of about threehundred other settlements in the country,

so in that respect it makes no difference where we are now.

Life has come to a standstill here, I think.

No places to go out, no culture,

nowhere to sit down, where we could draw, where the kids could paint,

or even pick up instruments.

None of these exist, I think.

The poor woman is stuck here with three or four kids, hauling water,

bathing them, doing their laundry.

Because there is no water in the apartments?

There is no water in the apartments at all,

maybe one or two units at the front have it,

and there are two public pumps.

That is where they get their water from in 2025.

You only learn the value and importance of water

when you have to carry every single drop.

So, before you pass judgment on someone,

you should come here to this little house,

and you should ask them, what is their life like?

What is their family like? They love their children just the same!

AS LONG AS THEY PROVIDE

These small settlements are Fidesz strongholds; they are the flag-bearers.

I know so many families here within this county,

and in every other county, too.

And well, in the end, I was the one distributing.

We went out, we handed out the chickens,

the food supplies, it was the night before the elections,

until 3 AM. I smelled so bad from the chickens,

it was simply unbelievable.

I personally helped with the potato distribution too.

It was 5 kg per voter.

Now it is the same, just not with potatoes,

but 10,000 forints per vote.

Here, it usually starts at a thousand, five thousand, ten thousand...

That is one day of food.

But by now, even I know there is more to the world than just one day.

In segregated areas, unfortunately, this is how it works.

Truly poor people live here.

People here live from one day to the next.

That is really how it is here.

They can be bought, unfortunately.

And it is not, in my opinion, it's not even their fault.

We talked them into it; we literally bought them.

When three kids are crying, "I'm hungry, Dad, Mom..."

I think anyone would give up that vote for anything.

Those who were put into the cars, everyone was paid for it,

subsidies, everything.

Has there ever been a time when you were paid for your vote?

There has.

Will you tell us who you voted for then?

For Fidesz.

In the days before, I went to every house telling them not to go on their own.

I will be the one taking them; they don't need to go.

We'll help with everything.

We held their hands like they were children.

There were families where one or two of our guys had to sleep over.

They talked with them, had coffee, slept there, just to make sure they could take them to vote,

because there were so many families.

Why did they have to sleep there? Why wasn't it enough to go there in the morning?

Because we didn't trust these people.

And of course, they got money, they got packages, and well, yeah...

We felt that we had to deliver too, because we were also afraid of retaliation.

This network was activated at midnight.

The higher-ups told us what each person had to say, what we had to memorize...

what the amounts were, what kind of reimbursements were available,

and for those with addictions, what to give them, what to tell them.

Word for word, name by name, house by house,

we tracked down the people in the villages.

We heard that they were transporting people in droves,

meaning non-Roma voters as well. - That is how it was...

Well, not just the Roma,

but anyone they could exert influence over.

We kicked this off at five-forty-five; roughly...

around 8 or 9, we managed to transport the elderly.

Then came the youth, who don't like to wake up early.

They divide it up: this street is yours, that alcoholic is yours...

that old lady is for the other person, they divide it up nicely.

Then around noon, they're just hunting down the missing people.

There are several people who are taken across to get an ID made just so they can vote.

No way!

Because if someone doesn't have their ID right before the election, for whatever reason...

they don't just get a temporary one, they get a proper ID immediately. How is that even possible?

It wasn't determined per person or per family, but just to get as many...

as possible, and it was rigged in a way where we played along,

pretending they couldn't read or write, so we could go into the voting booth with them.

There was this "chain voting", the first person went in, brought out the [blank] paper...

then kept bringing them in. Our job was to haul the people up there,

for a certain amount... they gave us the money, here, give 5,000 forints to this one, that one...

First, the alcoholics; they got them drunk on pálinka here,

then took them up to vote. I gave them money, and then they went straight to the minorities,

to all of them, one by one - we had to go and round up the people.

I'll come for you with a car, you get in, we drop you off...

you go in, you cast your vote, you come out, you get this much.

They already have a man inside who can see how they vote.

How can he see?

Everyone asks for help.

Those who ask for help get the money outside.

Those who don't ask for help don't get money outside.

And it might be the end of their job.

They might get fired.

There were some who were told they only get paid if they vote "openly."

Openly.

What does it mean to vote "openly"?

What does an "open vote" look like?

Well, it's when you don't go into the booth; you have to vote outside on the table.

And I guess someone stands there, watching who you marked, or you have to show it to someone.

Do they have to take photos, or how does it work with mobile phones?

As I said, it depends on whether "Gerzsi" or the other guy asks for it - "Igi," the mayor.

There, for example, you have to take a photo.

I saw the voter inside the booth along with this "associate,"

and it wasn't the voter who marked the X, but that associate.

Someone close to the Mayor.

How often did he jump into the booth?

One after another.

And then he goes in... he rings the phone...

just one ring... "all good"... he knows who went in, who came out.

And then a single ring; you don't even have to pick up the phone.

"Yes, this is good."

Just short little words like that.

And they already know they voted for them.

And they can count the votes out there.

Where are they at?

How many more are needed?

...To haul up.

How many were in the team?

Including the cars, 60.

- That's serious. - I think even more. Between 60 and 70.

- And you were the leader of this? - Yes.

Well, the voting usually goes like this: there are a lot of cars standing there,

bringing them, taking them, bringing them, taking them.

- Is it well-organized? - It is, yes.

What can we expect in 2026?

In terms of this kind of mobilization?

Well, it'll be twice as large as it was eight years ago.

In terms of money and cars too?

In everything.

Higher stakes, more money, more preparation...

Out of 106 Hungarian individual constituencies, no fewer than 53, exactly half,

have built this system, where every constituency has a leader...

their deputy, and six or eight data collectors, who basically

after preparations between last May and August,

went live with the work in September.

And at first, the plan was for this collection work to continue until December 31, 2025,

the point of which is to gather all the data needed for the balloting.

Name, ID number,

address card, and then they mobilize them for the election.

Usually, I paid an hourly rate.

But for those who said they'd be there from morning till night, there was a fixed daily wage.

That was 70,000 forints.

Those who were there and escorted people to the booth so they could pretend they couldn't read or write...

they got 35,000 forints a day.

They are entrusted with it; e ven my nephew was, they gave him the money...

he told me a million,

and he had to distribute it among the people in fives [5,000s].

They brought pálinka to get them drunk.

It's the same thing; the same thing is happening here.

The same thing is happening in Pilis, too.

I have acquaintances there; they were complaining.

I know that serious money was at stake; in fact, I heard in the county

about a lady who was boasting that she bought her house from that.

Eight years ago, I received 12 million forints for this work.

There are voices like that, where someone tells you completely openly.

She organized the cars to take people here and there, this way and that, to vote.

Specifically, I think she was a Fidesz lady,

but honestly, it doesn't matter if it's one or the other.

People have sadly grown used to the fact that this is how it's going to work.

In fact, they're already waiting for when they'll bring that food package.

Some are already waiting, thinking: "They'll give me a 'smoke' [cigarette] for my vote anyway."

People are already waiting for these things.

It's well-constructed.

They already know it; it's a strategy for them.

- It's sophisticated. - Sophisticated, yes.

And if all of this is true, and we multiply it by the number of people...

the number of constituencies, the number of weeks and months, then basically

by the end of December, we were at a point

where even with high turnout, this accounts for 6 to 7 percent.

Which could even be decisive.

Things have sped up.

You can feel it in every municipality.

There are those settlements where they've set up foundations,

where the money used for election handouts is transferred.

In the settlement of..., there's also a foundation...

and several people have already signaled that the method will be the same again.

The money is transferred to them, and from there it'll be scattered among the voters.

Well, I'd say we're talking about "grey money" at the very least, but

it's likely that it's absolute "black money."

And I know of an amount around 1.1 to 1.3 billion...

but according to several people, that is a deep underestimate of the sum.

At the same time, I also know, because multiple independent sources have said,

that right before the elections, there will be "election motivation."

Now, this could be potatoes, of course, it could be gift packages,

but it could be a 10 or 20 thousand [forint] note.

Some people took something somewhere, a pallet-sized pile of dough.

Now, if it's true that there are 50-million packages being taken to 156 locations,

then you immediately have that scale.

Imagine 50 million forints in 20,000-forint notes in front of you.

If they only take a 50-million-forint package to 156 places, that's 8 billion forints.

- Yes. - Cash.

Listen, in Tiszabura they had 150 [million] for 3 rounds.

- At the very least! - At the very least!

Then for the whole country, I mean, come on...

Imagine that in Tiszabura, in the last week, it was the third election,

when theoretically no one has any money left in a settlement like that...

and in the tobacco shop, there were so many 20,000-forint notes that they couldn't even give back change.

X million forints appeared in the settlement. All in 20,000-forint notes.

Everyone had 20,000s.

How?

Now, if we think about it,

If they are artificially kept in poverty, then we are talking about a tool of power technology.

And what people need to understand is that by controlling them, they are controlling you.

Who gave the drivers the money? Who did they get it from? The representatives who are in that electoral district.

Well, those who are in the constituency are representatives.

- So, the Fidesz Members of Parliament? - Exactly, exactly, exactly.

But it's all divided up; however many districts there are, there are that many MPs,

and they have their own people in their own districts,

and they are the ones who bring the cash.

They say: "This is your money, this is for school supplies, go buy a package with it,"

or they already brought the package and say: "Here's the school money, this is yours."

There was a maximum amount per voter, 5,000 forints, we always gave that out.

I gave fifty thousand, a hundred, thirty...

it depended on when, and which one [leader], and how.

Sometimes they even did another lap and gave me more money.

This activity we saw in Tiszabura can be carried out in three hundred settlements,

- lus... - At the very least.

At the very least, then that is a very, very serious number.

This is a very, very serious number.

Which elections are we talking about?

This was happening back in the Gyurcsány era too, but it wasn't this rampant.

Everyone does it, but mostly here in Vasvári, it's Fidesz.

They're the ones with enough money to hand it out.

But regarding the last parliamentary elections,

it must be said that the "Opposition gang" did the exact same thing as the "Fidesz crew."

Exactly the same; there were people who took money from both sides.

There was an opposition city leadership here for 12 years, too.

Well, they played this same tactic.

The exact same way.

It's getting worse here. Everything is getting worse.

And I don't even know if there will ever be change.

"We're moving forward backwards", that's our saying.

Alright, okay.

Ciao, ciao.

Bye, guys.

"We're moving forward backwards."

Just so they don't stab you in the back by accident, right?

THREATEN AND DEPRIVE

Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen.

The situation is that you are the ones who have to win this election.

In this region, in this district, public works programs are still common.

The mayors are in daily contact with the public workers,

and obviously, it will be said during the campaign, in fact, it's already been said,

that if you don't vote for Fidesz, there will be no public work, you'll have no daily income.

And these are simple people.

And very many of them believe that's how it is.

In the settlements, especially the small ones,

the mayor's opinion is decisive.

Few stand up to him because he has many tools in his hand

to influence the lives of the people living there, even their monthly income.

The mayors tell the Roma: "Fine, if you didn't vote for Fidesz,

then there's no public work, there's nothing."

In fact, they completely ruin those families in the settlement.

How do they ruin them?

If the threat didn't work, we took things away; we didn't give.

- What does that mean? - Together with the local municipality...

we cut off their electricity subsidy or their firewood subsidy.

So the mayor... I don't want to use the word "blackmail," but

yes, he expects the public workers, the employees,

those employed at the local institutions,

to support the governing party.

You don't even have to say your job will be gone tomorrow if you don't show up,

because everyone knows that if you don't go, it's over.

The situation is getting very grave now; there's some serious intimidation.

Just yesterday some acquaintances were at our place, and there are hardcore threats,

for example, in the district offices, they are threatening district office heads.

Yes, and who is threatening them?

The "boss ladies," for example, at the labor center.

Tasks are mandatorily assigned for the weekend: where to go,

where to appear. They shove tablets into their hands,

they make them register people, they go knocking and ringing doorbells everywhere.

You know?

Aha, I see.

The tablet is important; it's a very important tool for mobilization.

Yes.

A former Fidesz municipal representative told me

how he went out to mobilize for the '22 elections: on the tablet, he could see

all the addresses; he had to go online to mobilize his district.

Suddenly his phone rings - he said it was the Center in Sátoraljaújhely calling,

saying they got a call from the Lendvai Street headquarters [Fidesz HQ], asking why the man is standing still.

Why is he standing still when there's a mobilization going on?

We are marked... By the police, by the doctor,

wherever we go, they look at us like: "You didn't vote for us."

"You aren't with us," in plain English.

Then you don't get public work, you can't go to work,

you can't do this, you don't get that, they take away your housing subsidy.

And I could go on; there are so many things

they can do to hurt these families.

If we look back at the last 15 years, Fidesz has had an open policy -

and they've voiced it - of reaching everyone.

They support those who stand on their political side.

Meanwhile, municipalities on the opposition side don't get any support at all.

Tender funds are so scarce; we can mostly only hope for "Hungarian Village" grants -

my colleagues and I... and it all, all depends on the

goodwill and helpfulness of the Members of Parliament.

If the mayor doesn't work and perform

for the government, he won't get any grants.

It's terrible to see this injustice - that there are settlements

that don't even have to submit a bid and it just rains money on them,

while we have to hustle so hard for any tiny bit of funding.

Even though I love my settlement just as much

as that mayor who gets showered with money.

A 500-meter stretch of sidewalk - I don't know for the how-manieth time,

the tenth time we're submitting it to the "Hungarian Village" program.

The Representative promised the sidewalk right here in Szamos,

my predecessor built it, it's falling into the ditch, and we can't get 10 million forints.

I'm begging you, really.

These are our needs - I'm not

talking about billions, or a village bus, which is already falling apart on us.

We hear in several settlements that they use these "Hungarian Village" buses

on election day... - Of course.

- to transport voters. - I think this is natural.

They even go to the "Peace March" with these village buses - that's 100%.

No one here even makes a peep about it.

So, on state money? - Well, but Fidesz gave it.

Not the state. Fidesz gave the village bus,

so the minimum is that we go up to the Peace March with the Fidesz bus.

Anyone who goes against Fidesz, or perhaps expresses disagreement,

or doesn't agree with their politics or the current situation

that they created here in this country, Fidesz ruins all of them.

So anyone who goes against them...

as the Prime Minister said, they do not forget.

I worked a lot on drug cases, and say, up until five years ago,

you could work these cases quite well.

Then came the period when we were just lying.

There weren't enough men; "don't start an investigation."

The order was to just toss it out if we found something,

whatever, just as long as there's no case.

For years, this drug dealer network

has been running very, very smoothly; they aren't checking them.

In this area, theyíve taken away 12 dealers this year alone,

but they let ten of them out.

After the third day, maybe, but the longest anyone was in was 25 days -

someone they took from this very street.

- Why do they let them out? - That's the best question.

I think about that too.

It would look very, very bad if the real statistics were published

showing how much the number of drug users and

drug dealers has increased in a given area.

The police come here, they drive around in unmarked cars, and they know people are doing drugs there,

and there, and there, and they don't act.

I guess only after the election - but they won't act after the election either.

They don't mess with the addicts until then, because that's how they can grab them.

They give them money to buy drugs.

Or someone arranges drugs for them.

They buy them with these substances.

They are addicts; you sign, you mark the box, and naturally you get a pack or two.

They know who can be bought; they know who the addicts are.

In this area, everyone knows each other -

we're not talking about a city as big as Salgótarján.

It's already happened here that votes were given for designer drugs; it's happened

that they gave money, or someone got a food package.

I think this is present everywhere.

People are allowed to go about their drug dealing in peace,

and for the elections, in settlements like these

where there is deep poverty, these people will bring in

the "no-good bums" to vote for a single pack.

For a pack of drugs? - A pack is enough for them!

This is some cheap poison, a thousand forints -

now think about it,

if a person invests, say...

I'm just pulling a number out of thin air, a hundred thousand forints - that's a hundred votes.

Among these people, there are no secrets - it's not like we're not afraid.

And you also have to know that Fidesz has its own thugs too.

There are settlements where the Mayor, or her husband,

regularly uploads photos to social media

showing them out partying, where half the company are drug dealers.

This Mayor, for example, stays in touch with these people

because they are the ones who can influence the votes in the same way.

Fidesz brings in the pimps and the criminals because they know how to put,

oh I dunno, pressure on people, ou know what I'm sayin'?

I wanted to run for local office here, too.

I managed to run in the general election, but for the "small" municipality -

the Roma minority self-government - I couldn't even stand as a candidate

because the Mayor

set his people on me.

I invited the mayoral candidates to my house on Mester Street,

since I was a candidate back then,

and two mayoral candidates showed up,

plus two MP candidates;

I was the only one from the Roma minority.

Everything went as it should - the cooking, the talking, everything -

and two days later, the utility company showed up and cut off my electricity.

I said, "But why?"

"Forgive me," he says, "we cut your power on orders from above."

From then on, they wouldn't even reconnect it, even if I had paid for it.

This is a constant thing.

It's not that we suddenly scare them the day before the election;

it has to be handled so that fear is present in their everyday lives.

So they know who the boss is, that the municipality is the absolute master.

And this is very typical of the poorer layers, the less educated layers -

they can really keep them in check with this.

To what extent does this affect Roma, and to what extent non-Roma?

Both. Both the Roma and the non-Roma.

Anyone who doesn't agree with Fidesz is marked.

Two days later they came and cut off the water, too.

Was there any debt? Any overdue bills?

There was no debt whatsoever.

None.

Well, these things happened,

and then they even told me that it could get even worse.

Not just like this, but it could get even worse.

And it did get worse.

People go up there like humble servants.

Because they know that if they don't go up...

I don't know... to vote, there will be repercussions.

In the countryside, in small villages, the established custom is that you have to go,

like in the days of kings, when the vassals and the liegemen owed a debt to...

I don't know, their superiors.

That's how it works.

My son was born on January 1st.

On Thursday, the child was still there with Gabica all day.

On Friday morning, the child was still there.

In the afternoon, after the lunch break, they already took the child, saying they'd just heard

from Child Protective Services that the child cannot be released to the home.

They simply issue the order that this specific family

must be monitored, visited, that they must find a flaw.

And then the pressure begins.

In the village, everyone knows everyone.

They know your financial situation.

And that is what they try to attack.

And if that doesn't work, they attack through the child.

A person's treasure, their everything.

The child or the grandchild.

They are doing the same to me.

They are doing it to many people.

The social worker doesn't necessarily even participate in it,

they just use them as a threat, like the "boogeyman" used to scare kids.

I struggle, I fight, I suffer so much just to be with them.

I don't want them to take them away.

All it takes is one or two "reports" to a child welfare officer so they have to go out.

And once they've gone out and shown up, the fear sets in.

No one wants to give up their children.

At four-oh-one, the Mayor called me.

He says, "Listen here, Uncle Gyula."

"Tomorrow morning the child welfare officers will be there,

and I'm having the kids taken."

He didn't even let me get a word in; he hung up on me.

The next morning, two minutes before 8 AM, they were already here.

I ask the neighbors - first, they say the child is being put under guardianship.

But here, the Mayor said he is taking them, having them removed.

Even though I think, despite the fact that we live poorly,

there are people in worse situations than us.

Because the kids have clothes and everything.

And the child is a good student - smart; he was in a read-aloud competition twice.

I'll tell you the honest truth.

Let him try to take them!

If he can take them, he'll have to take them over my dead body.

Because I will surely kill someone.

Why did he threaten you with that?

I think these threats happened, and will keep happening,

because

my father told him on the phone

that he isn't going to vote for them, for Fidesz.

MAYOR PÉTER N. DID NOT WISH TO COMMENT

So they didn't release the baby, and Gabi - your wife - had to come home

practically without the baby.

She had to come home without the baby.

At the hospital, my nerves were...

I could barely calm her down, saying "no, we'll bring him home anyway,"

because we won't rest until we bring him home.

The child was kept in the hospital

without a formal guardianship decree being issued.

Which, in itself, is illegal.

You can't keep someone in a hospital and

remove them from the family without a legally binding court order.

It is nonsense on its own that a child welfare service gives an order to a

hospital when - I say it again - there is no legally binding decree.

That simply doesn't exist. - It's a total administrative anomaly.

They are not an authority; the Child Welfare Service is not an authority.

The authorities are the Government Office, the District Office, the Guardianship Office, and that's it.

The Court, the Police, the Prosecutor's Office - those are the authorities.

And I told the District Head this: that after this, I'm going to consider

that since the Guardianship Office wasn't the culprit,

we should initiate proceedings against the Child Welfare Service.

And this is interesting because the opposing candidate, the one who ultimately won against Tibi,

he isn't with the Guardianship Office;

it was someone who shouldn't even have been allowed to act in this case.

And miraculously, Laci Glonczi made a call to the Child Welfare Center -

he'd barely put the phone down, and the Child Welfare Service was already here.

Well, everything is right here... it's all documented.

ANIKÓ K., A ROMA MINORITY REPRESENTATIVE AND CHILD WELFARE WORKER, DECLINED TO BE INTERVIEWED.

SHE CLAIMS SHE WAS NOT THE ASSIGNED CASE OFFICER AND HAS NO PUBLIC DISPUTE WITH TIBOR.

- Hi! - Hi!

- Tell us, how are you? - Good, we're good now!

Good now, thank God!

- Finally taking him home! - Of course!

Can you hold him?

Just cover him, like that!

Good, good.

[Unintelligible]

Not yet.

I said it would be better if it rained.

I'd rather my money be gone than my son not come home.

Don't kick the blanket off, or you'll catch a cold.

He didn't cry at all.

He's safe now.

Well, he's with his parents.

Slowly, slowly, slowly.

Slowly.

We're inside!

What is it?

You big man!

Because we aren't bootlickers, because we won't play along

with the Mayor's little games - this is what we get.

Because they'll ruin me, just as I am.

That's why I don't dare to run.

Not because I'm afraid of them, or anyone, but because I have children.

They caused us a lot of psychological trauma with this.

Yes.

So...

That's what I have to think about.

A SYMBOL OF TOTAL MAYORAL DOMINATION "NOT JUST A ROMA PROBLEM"

Here in Nyírbogát, what is the most important factor

in how they get people to go vote?

Intimidation, or money?

- Both. - Both.

Well, there's a layer of people he can't just hand 5,000 forints to, because...

Because they aren't like that; for this middle class, intimidation is what gets them to vote -

whether it's the doctor telling them, or their boss at work.

I'm "not eligible" for public works, no interest-free loans even though

I needed it for my medicine and my treatment - I'm "not eligible."

My children can't really stay in touch with me, because theyíll lose their jobs.

It has destroyed me mentally to the point where I have nothing left to lose.

A Mayor cannot do this - to harass even my daughter-in-law.

She was hired for public works after much pleading, and he said to her -

she's a cleaner at the nursing home - "What is she doing here?"

"She's Gizi's daughter-in-law."

"How can she be here?"

And the girl said, "Well, just because I'm her daughter-in-law

doesn't mean I stay in touch with my mother-in-law."

But her eyes were tearing up that she had to say such a thing!

When in reality, my daughter-in-law loves me.

And I told her: act as if you hate me.

So she can have a job, so she can feed her child.

Now, this is a disgrace to Hungary.

By what right?

By what right do you hurt my children?

Anyone close to Fidesz can do anything.

They can be usurers, do drugs, sell drugs - nothing will happen to them.

"Why don't you help us, Doctor?"

And do you know what she said?

"I'm happy enough if I help my own kind."

And then I spoke up, but at the election - I spoke up then, and there was a great silence -

but at the election, why do you torment them over the 'X' and make them vote openly?

She couldn't even speak.

Everyone is afraid; they're afraid for their jobs.

Even in my family, the boss is Fidesz, and she's afraid to speak out.

Is that a police car - sorry, or is it not the police?

It doesn't matter. - They are very afraid on this street.

And in the whole village, not just this street.

Today, firewood was distributed, and specifically, only the Fidesz people got any.

This firewood was supposedly distributed based on need.

My brother, unfortunately, has only one leg; his left leg was amputated.

He didn't get any.

I suffer from Type 2 muscular dystrophy.

I didn't get any either.

It's simply that important whether social firewood is handed out or not...

who gets it and who doesn't.

That is how bad things are in the countryside.

That is the conclusion.

It's that important who gets the firewood and who doesn't.

I'm from Nyírbogát, and so many people tell me they don't dare speak up here -

they're trembling because they might get sick.

Or their child, their grandchild, anyone - they might need a medical fit-for-work certificate.

They'll lose their job. - That's right, and also...

she was the head of the nursing home for a long time.

She is still the doctor for the nursing home.

So that's another relationship of dependency.

If someone has a loved one lying in there -

say, they're sick - then they don't dare speak.

They have to go vote because

their attention is called to the fact that they must go vote.

Because if not...

So they create this terrible, vulnerable situation in Nyírbogát.

This kind of dependency.

She had us merge our medical practices, so now there's only one.

I think she knew she could use this to play the tyrant.

That everyone belongs to her - this can be very easily abused.

So she acquired power for herself - absolute power.

People are afraid she won't prescribe their meds, that she won't see them,

and then they have nowhere to go if they don't go vote, regardless.

- The occupational physician. - That's exactly how it is.

And she's the occupational physician for the public workers in the whole sub-region.

I've experienced going to other settlements, and they're afraid there too, because

Dr. Ildikó Rizsák from Nyírbogát is their doctor, and they're afraid

they won't get their medical clearance.

If people come to collect signatures, they won't sign their names because

they're afraid she won't prescribe medicine for them, or their family,

or their grandchild. There are widows living in this little street,

and everyone has children - they're afraid.

Who would have thought... a local GP?

It's a nice monopoly - now everyone has to go to her.

And the default stance is: "Shut your mouth."

"Are you voting for me?"

"You get your Algopyrin."

"No?"

"Your tooth is going to hurt!"

ACCORDING TO FORMER GP MÁRIA DINKÓ, SHE WAS FORCED OUT WITH FABRICATED ALLEGATIONS.

AT THE MAYOR'S SUGGESTION, THE COUNCIL THEN REDUCED THE TOWN'S MEDICAL SERVICES TO JUST ONE PRACTICE.

What's the situation with the nursing home?

Since that's theoretically part of it too, right?

Yes, the staff definitely - the staff go out to campaign, so...

I always say, if I ever get to that point,

hang me from a tree rather than put me in that home.

I don't know how they make the elderly vote; I haven't seen it myself, I don't know...

But they make sure they vote the right way.

Well, voting in the nursing home goes like this: the staff

fill out the ballots on behalf of the elderly residents.

This goes completely against election law, and they make people vote

who have disabilities like dementia - people who don't even

know what is happening around them, who aren't even allowed to vote.

It's in the law, but they make them vote anyway.

They don't really allow the two members of the ballot counting committee,

who bring the mobile ballot box, to help the elderly - instead, it's the nurse working there.

If they don't find a nurse like that in the nursing home,

then they ask the relative to go to their elderly family member

and have them mark the "X" for them.

And if, say, the relative wouldn't vote the way they want,

what are the threats? What would happen?

The threat might be, for example, that the dementia patient is in such a state

that they can no longer accommodate them.

Exactly - and then they should find another institution or take them home.

The guys went back to take some distant wide shots of the nursing home.

Then the Mayor claimed that they wanted to climb the fence,

and I don't know what else they wanted to do.

I wasn't there, but it's obviously absurd.

Yeah, a little video was made about that; I saw it.

A defamatory, smear video is being prepared here in Nyírbogát.

Two people unknown to us appeared in front of our house

wearing fur hats pulled down to their noses.

They filmed our house, the clinic, its entrance, and the parking lot for several long minutes.

- My respects, Madam Mayor. - Good day.

- Good day.

- Ildikó Rizsák. - Ádám Tompos.

- Nice to meet you. - Áron Tímár . Nice to meet you.

Can we do an interview?

Thank you very much, I do not wish to take the opportunity.

MAYOR / DISTRICT GENERAL PRACTITIONER / PHARMACEUTICAL SUPPLIER / CURRENT PHYSICIAN FOR THE NURSING HOME / PRESIDENT OF THE RETIREES' ASSOCIATION /

PRESIDENT OF THE EAST NYÍRSÉG MICRO-REGIONAL ASSOCIATION / MEMBER OF THE COUNTY ASSEMBLY /

PRESIDENT OF "FOR A BETTER LIFE" LOCAL LEADER ACTION GROUP (18 SETTLEMENTS) /

OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN FOR THE REGION'S MAJOR COMPANIES / PRESIDENT OF THE BOGÁT 2000 GYMNASTICS CLUB

HER HUSBAND, MIKLÓS SIMON, IS A FIDESZ MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON DEFENSE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT,

AND PRESIDENT OF THE HOPORTYÓ HUNTING ASSOCIATION.

No problem, Madam Mayor. - Thank you.

To what extent is the domination?

Well, no - this isn't a Roma issue.

I'm telling you, the Sicilians come here for training.

This isn't a Roma issue.

I think someone is following us.

Following?

Yes, for a while now.

And he's quite far behind.

And as we slow down, he slows down too.

Okay, let's wait for him.

Why are you filming me?

Do you like me?

- Yes. - Yes?

I'm filming nature.

Yes?

Then kiss my ass.

Along with nature...

- My respects! - I asked you for something...

Wasn't I clear enough?

- You filthy people! - Why are you following us?

- We came out to the fields. - I came out to see my friend!

I see, so you're constantly behind us...

- My friend lives here, he's a shepherd. - I understand.

- Do you have friends everywhere we go? - Blah blah blah blah....

Thank you for the conversation.

Robin Rizák.

He's the Mayor's godson.

Her driver and fixer, so to speak.

Her right-hand man.

So the Mayor sent her fixer after us.

A field guardóhe has a bunch of these "humbug" jobs,

you know, getting funds and money from the office.

Thank you.

Listen, sorry, check how many "small agricultural business" grants they piled on him.

You know, they're always stuffed with these 15,000-euro grants.

Look, I'm checking the EU funds here:

Leader [EU program]...

on one hand, Róbert Rizsák, 14 million.

In '23.

Wait, wait, let me ask more.

"For a Better Life Association."

That's the Leader group.

Ildikó is the president; her assistant is a board member.

Their neighbor is Bakos, the one who usually drives Miklós to Budapest -

- he's the other board member. - Right, clear.

And some half-wit is the fourth.

Well, this one got 19 million, okay.

"Together for Each Other in Nyírbogát" - that's 25 million.

That's the son-in-law's foundation; it just won 550 million recently, yes.

And he owns the Bátori Guesthouse too, the Elixir.

And you can link Zibelina and Junafebo Ltd. to him.

So they are the ones who also own the Nyírbogát Supply Store.

Plus, these two companies also deal with construction work.

So if you look around the 6th district - say, in Érpatakó,

you'll run into them either as the bidder or the counter-bidder.

A family business.

Yes, and then Nyírmedicina - that one is hers directly; that's 14 million.

Exactly.

- Through that, she provides the medical services, right? - Exactly.

And the pharmacy belongs here too; and we know

that in the 6th district, everyone has to buy everything from this pharmacy.

- So this is the drug distribution center. - Clear.

And everyone from the 32 settlements has to buy from here, or woe to you.

Our Member of Parliament keeps

in constant contact with the mayors of the region.

He comes and gives updates on politics,

and explicitly or implicitly, it is clearly expected of colleagues

to deliver the appropriate vote count in favor of Fidesz.

The MP calls and asks for certain vote numbers.

Then the mayor goes out to the families and says: "You,

you, and you,", until he meets the number they asked of him,

and he sends the people to vote.

By showing the results of previous elections, he urged them

to make sure these numbers don't get worse - only better.

Of course, we know of cases where this failed after the 2022 elections,

and the mayor was indeed "dealt with."

The problem is that in this region, this is an established order.

My colleagues accept this one hundred percent -

that "well, he has to jump when Attila [the MP] whistles,"

because otherwise, there is no grant money.

And perfectly intelligent, normal, grown adults accept this completely.

Yes?

Hello!

Yes?

- Our company is back! - Alright.

Let's do it this way, okay? Pull over immediately after the turn, okay?

Good, okay.

And I'll park right here, okay?

Get out!

Sir!

I told you!

I am a person performing law enforcement duties.

Stop filming!

Sir, why are you harassing us? I'm asking with all due respect.

I am a field guard.

I understand, but where is the field here?

And what were you doing there?

Doing drugs, perhaps?

What?

- Yes. - We were doing what?

- Were we doing drugs? - I think you were doing drugs.

No.

Yes, I think so.

Sir, there is no need for intimidation.

A civilized conversation.

A civilized conversation, you... yeah.

So the question is why they arrested him just now - if it's a coincidence,

or if it's because we are here

and they want to prevent us from talking.

They stopped me right at the Best Market - the busiest spot, where everyone can see...

I'm just asking why I have to stand here; what's the problem?

He checked my ID; everything went the way an ID check usually goes,

and then I picked up the phone to call - to say I'd been stopped, I'd be late,

to have someone else take the interview, let's get it done somehow because you were waiting for us.

I can't use the phone, nothing - like I'm some criminal!

I respected that, of course, and I waited it out nicely,

but the fact that it took nearly three hours, and they only let me go...

When my son came up and said: "Mom, the press is gone, the journalists are gone!"

Then he nodded his head - like, okay, now she can go.

If a journalist appears, it has to be reported.

There is a political sensitivity and a case-reporting obligation;

they'd already established the identities and sent them to National Police HQ.

Or, if the Secret Services were involved,

then the information went straight to [Antal] Rogán.

- Be very careful with my face! - Very careful!

That's why I dressed like this.

Be very careful with my face!

How do you want your voice? High or deep?

- We'll make it very deep. - Make it very deep, that's right.

Kids, even you should be careful - I'm just saying.

I mean, the underworld people they have, you wouldn't...

- What kind of underworld people do they have? - Let's not talk about it; forget it!

You have no idea what they are capable of!