Orbán's opponent believes "terror attack plot" on gas pipeline is aimed at disrupting Hungary's elections

Orbán's main rival, opposition Tisza party leader Péter Magyar, sees the alleged foiled sabotage of a gas pipeline in Serbia as a staged operation to disrupt the elections in Hungary.

Source: Magyar on Facebook on the afternoon of 5 April, as reported by European Pravda

Details: Magyar stated that for many weeks he has been receiving information from various sources that Orbán had been preparing to "cross a new line" in an attempt to shift the electoral situation in his favour, involving Serbia and Russia.

Quote: "Several people publicly pointed out that something might 'accidentally' happen in Serbia near the gas pipeline around the Easter period – a week before the Hungarian elections. And now it has happened."

More details: Magyar called on Viktor Orbán to "immediately provide information on developments and convene a security council", adding that whoever stands behind this provocation, it will likely be a Tisza government that will have to resolve the situation going forward. He also urged Orbán to "at least during the holidays stop stoking panic" in line with the playbook of Russian political technologists.

"I also want to stress that he will not succeed in disrupting next Sunday's elections. He will not be able to prevent millions of Hungarians from putting an end to the two most corrupt decades in our country's history," Magyar stated.

"Hungarians have sufficient grounds to fear that a prime minister facing the loss of power, on the advice of Russian agents, is planning to instil fear in his fellow citizens through increasingly clumsy 'false flag operations'. If Orbán's propaganda machine uses this provocation for campaign purposes – that will be an open admission that this was a planned 'false flag operation'," he added.

Péter Magyar stated that should he win the elections, his government will conduct a proper investigation to establish who was behind this.

Hungarian investigative journalist Szabolcs Panyi also stated that the alleged "sabotage" of the pipeline leading to Hungary, supposedly foiled by Serbia, looks very much like a staged "performance" designed to give Orbán grounds to avert his electoral defeat.

Background:

• On 5 April, Serbia reported an attempted act of sabotage on the pipeline leading to Hungary, with large packages of explosives and detonators allegedly found nearby.
• Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán subsequently convened the Defence Council.
• Notably, long before this, Hungary had strengthened the protection of energy infrastructure allegedly due to a "Ukrainian threat", while Serbia deployed its armed forces personnel to guard the infrastructure ensuring gas transit to Hungary.

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