Orbán's election rival believes "attempted terror attack" on gas pipeline is aimed at disrupting Hungarian elections

Orbán's main rival, opposition Tisza party leader Péter Magyar, believes the alleged foiled sabotage of a gas pipeline in Serbia was a staged operation designed 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 weeks, he has been receiving information from various sources that Orbán was preparing to "cross a new line" in an attempt to improve his election chances with Serbian and Russian involvement.

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

"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 declared.

"Hungarians have sufficient grounds for concern that a prime minister facing the loss of power, on the advice of Russian agents, is planning to instil fear in his fellow citizens by means of 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.

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

Hungarian investigative journalist Szabolcs Panyi also said the "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 electoral defeat.

Background:

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

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