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Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar has accused Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government of systematically and illegally spying on him, his staff and the offices of his Respect and Freedom Party. “Intelligence officers who serve their country and not a mafia government have confided in me that my apartment, our offices and our vehicles have been bugged for months,” he said at a Sunday press conference in Budapest. Magyar called on Interior Minister Sándor Pintér to send experts to remove the bugging devices and to clarify who had ordered and authorized the illegal surveillance. As an elec…