Since ending Orbán's hardline 16-year-long rule, Prime Minister Peter Magyar's new government has rushed to loosen his lingering grip

The Fidesz party of Hungary’s nationalist ex-leader Viktor Orbán, which was swept from power in elections in April, said on Tuesday that prosecutors had launched a raid on its data servers.

Since ending Orbán’s hardline 16-year-long rule, Prime Minister Peter Magyar’s new pro-European conservative government has rushed to loosen his lingering grip on the central European country.

“Investigators from the prosecutor’s office showed up unannounced at the data centre hosting Fidesz’s servers with the intention of seizing the party’s entire communications system and databases,” a party statement said on Facebook.

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