Orbán talks about plot and Magyar, about montage

The discovery occurred in a border area with the neighboring country, Serbia, and occurred at a time of maximum tension in Budapest, with legislative elections around the corner, next Sunday, April 12.

Orbán, main European ally of the Russian president Vladimir Putinhas resisted calls from the European Union (EU) to abandon Russian energy imports since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the start of war in 2022.

In recent weeks, there has been numerous information pointing to the extensive relationship between Putin and Orbán, with an alleged recommendation from Russian intelligence to the Hungarian president to simulate a assassination attempt to increase his popularity.

In fact, security experts in Hungary have raised the possibility of a staged operation, either on Hungarian or Serbian territory, aimed at increasing sympathy for the Hungarian leader and helping him to come back in the polls.

This is the context in which the discovery made by the Serbian army occurred. He found two backpacks full of explosives and detonators near the village of Tresnjevac, in the Kanjiza district, about 20 km (12 miles) from the point where the gas pipeline TurkStream crosses into Hungary.

The Serbian president himself, Alexander Vucica close ally of Orbán, informed the Hungarian leader of the discovery on Sunday morning, as he himself confirmed on his social networks.

“Our units found an explosive of devastating power,” Vucic said in a social media post. “I told Prime Minister Orbán that we would keep him informed about the investigation.”

Along with Robert Ficoprime minister of SlovakiaVucic and Orbán form the eurosceptic triangle that frequently clashes with Brussels and champions policies such as the drastic rejection of irregular immigration.

Orbán’s anti-Ukraine campaign

Pastor Balint, presidente de la Hungarian Association of Vojvodina and another key ally of Orbán, assured on Facebook that depending on the outcome of the investigation, the attack may be aimed at “bringing down Orbán.”

“If the investigation shows that we were not the main target after all, but rather Hungary’s supply lines, then it becomes even clearer that this terrorist attack was planned with the aim of overthrowing Viktor Orbán.”

Duro Jovanićdirector of the Belgrade Military Security Agency in charge of counterintelligence, declared however that “it was not true that the Ukrainians had tried to organize” this attack, with “packaged, hermetically sealed explosives and detonators.”

The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine denied “categorically” any responsibility and criticized attempts to “falsely link Ukraine”, adding that behind the operation was “probably a Russian false flag operation“before the elections.

He Fidesz In this electoral campaign, the issue of Ukraine has become a fundamental pillar of the electoral campaign, with enormous rejection of kyiv and questioning the EU’s interest in a distancing between Budapest and Moscow.

Hungary is wallpapered with billboards with the faces of the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenskiand of Péter HungarianOrbán’s rival and opponent in these elections, who they are trying to stop with messages that warn of the supposed danger that a Hungary led by the young Hungarian leader would have.

“They are dangerous! Let’s stop them!”adds an electoral text, which invites Fidesz to vote on April 12.

Hungary is estimated to receive between five and eight billion cubic meters of Russian gas per year through the pipeline. TurkStreamon which they depend both Hungary and Slovakia for Russian gas supply.

Orbán has already accused the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenskito impose a “blockade” on Hungary, because no Russian oil has arrived through the pipeline since the end of January Druzhbawhich passes through Ukrainian territory.

Ukraine says the pipeline was damaged in a Russian attack and should be operational again in mid-April.

This attack with a Shahed drone, still to be clarified, hit the pumping station of the pipeline that transports Russian crude oil to Hungary and Slovakia, Putin’s main allies in the EU.

The station was inoperative since thenwhich has left these two countries without Russian oil. In parallel, Ukraine has run out of money, after the blockade carried out by Hungary on loan that the European Union had agreed with kyiv.

In the electoral campaign events, Orbán himself has assured that Hungarian families can afford pay a low price for gas thanks to its Executive and the import of Russian energy.

Likewise, the Hungarian president has warned that a Government headed by TISZA, with Magyar as prime minister, would be “put in a puppet” from Brussels at the head of the country.

Orbán has harshly charged against Zelensky, whom he has accused of “electoral interference“by being aligned with the interests of the EU. He assures that the European institutions want a change in the Magyar country, by betting on a leader who can be closer to their interests.

In parallel, Orbán’s different accusations and the blockade of the European loan had a response from Zelensky, who went so far as to “threaten” the Fidesz leader with “sending his soldiers” to talk to him. These words were rebuked by the European institutions.

Hungarian accuses Orbán

Meanwhile, the opposition leader, favorite in the polls to unseat Orbán from the power he has held in the Magyar country for 16 years, has also accused him of “carrying out a false flag operation”, with which he orchestrated this attack in connivance with the Serbian leader.

Magyar assured that the elections will take place “normally” next Sunday and that there will be nothing to prevent it, given the growing fear that Orbán will end up suspending the elections, alleging a special situation.

In parallel, he regretted that he is trying to “generate fear” in the population, although it will not work in the face of the electoral elections this Sunday.

“He will not be able to prevent the elections next Sunday. He will not be able to prevent millions of Hungarians from putting an end to the two most corrupt decades in the history of our country.”