Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar announced on Friday that he will lead the Tisza party’s list in the upcoming parliamentary election in April as its prime ministerial candidate. ‘I’m ready to serve Hungary and my fellow citizens with all my knowledge and energy,’ Magyar wrote in a post on social media, adding that the party’s leadership and its 106 individual candidates unanimously decided on the issue.
Presenting the announcement as though it were some kind of surprise, it had long been known that he would lead Tisza’s list. For an uncomfortably long time—almost two years—Magyar has been the only speaking head of the party. He even restricted individual candidates from speaking to the media, and there is an explicit reason for that.
Despite claiming he is ‘ready to serve Hungary’, Péter Magyar has long been seen as the candidate of Brussels—and Kyiv—supported by the EU mainstream, which expects him to lift Hungary’s veto on Ukraine’s EU accession and align the country with their positions on issues such as migration.
Tisza was quickly accepted into the European People’s Party (EPP), the political family of the EU establishment—a move that, according to POLITICO Brussels, helped EPP president Manfred Weber to ‘secure influence over Budapest’ and to ‘give them [Tisza] resources’ to defeat Orbán.
In a recently published report outlining a five-point roadmap to admit Ukraine into the EU by 2027—based on conversations with EU officials and member state diplomats—POLITICO Brussels titled one of the points ‘waiting for Orbán’s departure’, referring to a potential Magyar electoral victory and the lifting of Hungary’s veto on Ukraine’s accession.
As Hungarian Conservative recently wrote, to disguise that Magyar is indeed Brussels’ ‘puppet’, as officials from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government describe him, the EPP and Tisza—coupled with Western media outlets, most notably POLITICO Brussels—staged a whole political theatre, allowing Magyar to vote against EPP party lines to communicate that he does not have an ‘owner’.
POLITICO Brussels even published a glowing piece on how successfully Magyar stole Orbán’s nationalist platform—from illegal migration to Ukraine’s EU accession—in which they claimed that Tisza is a ‘fully pro-Hungarian party’. If that were truly the case, one might ask why the entire EU establishment is rooting for Magyar to win, if he would basically leave Orbán’s policies in place—the same policies that made him a pariah in the European Union.
It is because he will not—and this is all political theatre designed to sway and deceive voters for whom Hungary’s sovereignty is of utmost importance. Behind the disguise, Péter Magyar and Tisza are part of the same circle linked to EU elites who have tried everything over the past 15 years to undermine Orbán’s power and Hungary’s interests.
As pointed out by Political Director of the Hungarian prime minister Balázs Orbán, ‘Péter Magyar is the candidate for prime minister of Brussels and Kyiv’, adding that it is up to Hungarian voters to protect the country’s sovereignty in April.
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