Peter Magyar, incumbent President of the Respect and Freedom (Tisza) Party, released an audio recording a year ago he had made without the knowledge of his ex-wife, former Justice Minister Judit Varga, in which he tried to get her to confess, or rather to give information compromising Viktor Orbán and the Hungarian government.
A poor attempt to smear the government
Magyar claimed that the recording he released was made in January 2023 during a conversation in which Varga expressed her connection to a mafia government from which no one could escape.
However, as it later turned out, nothing particularly compromising of the Hungarian government came out of the audio recording. Instead of specifics, he cited only a poor-quality and confusing conversation with his then-wife Varga. Moreover, in the course of the inarticulate conversation, he repeatedly self-pronounces names, emphasises the right points, tries to get his ex-wife to talk about it, and clearly tries to get serious phrases and questions out of her, but to no avail.
After it became clear that this footage had been edited, Magyar went straight to the back, and instead of the promised information that was supposed to bring down the government, he only spoke about a family quarrel.
In response to Magyar’s accusations, Judith Varga took to Facebook to accuse him of blackmail and abuse. She also details how Magyar used the recording to manipulate her for months.
In the second part of her post, she recounts an incident of violence in their marriage where Magyar shouted at her, threw books and his girded trousers at her. This was allegedly not an isolated incident in their relationship. According to Varga, while her then husband continued to abuse her, she kept playing a “nice tune” in her head to distract herself from her ordeal.
Varga also revealed that Magyar began threatening her when she insisted on divorce. She wrote:
“That was the context for this post… He was going to blackmail me. He was provoking me by recounting gossip from the press.”
Just a “bug”
“Why a bug, or rather a bug? Because he was bugging his wife. If he hadn’t bugged her, he wouldn’t be called that,”Viktor Orbán wrote in a post on his social networking site.
The Hungarian prime minister clarified that he was referring to Péter Magyar, chairman of Hungary’s globalist, liberal Tisza party, when Orbán said in a speech in Budapest on March 15 that spring cleaning was needed because “that bedbugs had survived the winter.”
Magyar’s double game
Both Péter Magyar’s personal life and policies on Ukraine and the war are also characterised by lies, ambiguity and secrecy as he tells the Hungarian public and his supporters in Brussels quite the opposite.
With this double game, the Tisza party leader is trying to satisfy both the European People’s Party, led by Manfred Weber, and the Hungarian electorate, the majority of which rejects his pro-war policies. Péter Magyar essentially represents Brussels’ liberal, globalist position on Ukraine.
Magyar is clearly “walking on the edge,” apparently unable to reconcile the sincerely pro-Ukrainian position of the European People’s Party – which is expected of him by his globalist leadership – with the information he provides to the Hungarian public.
Recent events have shown that Magyar lacks the determination to openly accept the Brussels policy rejected by the majority of Hungarian voters, that at the same time he tries to hide it from his bosses, from Manfred Weber and his entourage.
Recently Zoltán Tarr, vice-president of the Tisza party and member of the European Parliament (MEP), sent a letter to Brussels that came into the possession of a Hungarian news paper.
In this letter, Magyar announced the “12+1” questions, but the so-called “plus one” question was left out of the Brussels letter, which cannot be a coincidence. This additional question concerns Ukraine’s EU membership, the very question that the Orbán government is now asking the Hungarian people. Magyar formulated it as follows: “Do you support Ukraine’s membership in the European Union?”
Earlier, Participants of the rally on March 15 were given leaflets with “Orbán’s 12 points” – a list of “the Hungarian nation’s demands to Brussels,” which the Prime Minister published in the morning of that day in social networks. “European Union, but without Ukraine” was the last, twelfth point.
The Tisza party chairman is trying to hide from Brussels that Ukraine’s membership is a priority issue for Hungary. History shows that Magyar plays a double role in the Ukraine issue, as he recently denied that he had signed the Ukrainian proposal to continue the war.
Magyar co-authored a draft European Parliament resolution which stated that “the future of Europe will be decided on the Ukrainian battlefield and therefore more arms and ammunition should be sent.”
Aid to Ukraine: a call for peace or a continuation of war
The document, presented to the EP last week, also sets a target that “each member state should allocate 0.25 per cent of its GDP to military support for Ukraine.” Fidesz MEP Csaba Dömötör announced the document on his social media page last week. It is about the fact that the left-wing grand coalition in the EP has submitted a draft resolution to the European Parliament. Among the authors is the name of Peter Magyar. It is supposed to be about European defence, but in fact it is the most serious military resolution in favour of Ukraine.
In his post, Dömötör emphasised that Magyar, Weber and the entire globalist-liberal elite in the European Parliament want the war to continue despite the fact that the US, Ukraine and Russia are already negotiating a ceasefire.
In the long term the plan of the globalist-liberal elite in the European Parliament is to spend thousands of billions on this. All this despite the fact that Europe has already allocated huge sums to the war and to support Ukraine, which had to be taken from other areas. This is why the existing aid programmes, such as agricultural subsidies, will be cut, the MEP said.
Apparently, the chairman of the Tisa party, Peter Magyar, is in full compliance with Brussels’ recommendations. Csaba Dömötör also pointed out why Peter Magyar never answers directly and clearly to questions about the war and he has completely obeyed his globalist masters from Brussels.
A majority of MEPs, including the European People’s Party, which includes Tisza’s party, voted in favour of the motion to continue the war in Ukraine last week. Magyar and Tisza party MEPs did not vote against the resolution, although the party leader spent several days explaining himself, denying that he had signed the motion, and immediately accused Orbán’s Fidesz party of falsifying information.
By trying to show itself in a favourable light before Brussels, Magyar loses above all the support of its citizens. Hungarians are increasingly saying in small talk that “This Magyar is clearly not a Magyar…”
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Vazul Erdos for Head-Post.com
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