PM Orbán’s team may prepare something violent in Győr, mayor suggests

The non-aligned Mayor of Győr, former journalist Bence Pintér, addressed rumours in a Facebook post, suggesting that a game-changing event will occur in the city when PM Orbán visits on 27 March.

PM Viktor Orbán is on a campaign tour in Hungary for the first time in the last 20 years. This is because all non-government pollsters show a significant lead for the Tisza Party only three weeks before the general elections on 12 April. On Friday, 27 March, he will arrive in Győr to hold a mass rally for his supporters.

Győr was one of the strongest bastions of Orbán’s Fidesz in Hungary, but the party lost the mayorship in 2024, although it still holds a comfortable majority on the city council. Weeks ago, Mayor Pintér reported the disappearance of 1.7 billion forints from the budget of a city company managed by Fidesz-nominated leadership. The issue remains unresolved, even though the money was transferred back; the company’s management has not explained where the funds were beforehand or why the books showed them as missing.

Mayor Bence Pintér, once a journalist at Azonnali, has now written on Facebook about rumours surrounding Orbán’s visit. Gossip suggests that Fidesz is preparing a “game-changing” event in the city, though he did not specify its nature. The mayor quoted Salvor Hardin, a character created by Isaac Asimov: “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

Regarding the mysterious post, 444.hu referred to a recent Washington Post article claiming that the Russian secret service raised the prospect of a coup against PM Orbán to help the Hungarian premier regain momentum in the final days of the election campaign.

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