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Could Péter Magyar’s lead vanish due to Orbán’s alleged Russian-backed disinformation drive or the mobilisation?
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Péter Magyar, leader of the Tisza party, claims his outfit leads the ruling parties by such a margin that Viktor Orbán’s camp can only pin its hopes on a slick disinformation campaign. He alleges they have already stockpiled AI-generated videos for the task – and even let slip where the operation will launch.
Meanwhile, Orbán’s team exudes confidence, insisting they are ahead, though the prime minister confines his remarks to closed-door gatherings. He maintains, nonetheless, that Magyar and his party are bankrolled by Ukraine. Yet the election on 12 April could hinge on an entirely different front.
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Magyar warns of Orbán’s Russian-linked disinformation ‘offensive’
In a recent Facebook post, Péter Magyar signalled that the Hungarian ruling parties, in cahoots with Russia, are poised to unleash a smear campaign against their candidates and Tisza on social media – chiefly TikTok. He cites a precedent: Moscow’s successful trial run in Moldova.
Magyar claims 14 AI-crafted videos targeting him and Tisza’s Göd candidate are already in the arsenal, with the assault set to begin there. Göd hit the headlines recently over revelations that the local Samsung factory deliberately poisoned its workers for years, with the government and relevant authorities failing to act – or acting too late. The plant still operates today, albeit in reduced mode amid the battery crisis.
Are the Russians already in the fray?
Magyar has previously suggested that even rural voters will desert Orbán, with the tide turning and a rebellion brewing against the prime minister and his system, 24.hu wrote.
Journalist Szabolcs Panyi reported in his VSquare newsletter that US intelligence warned European allies of a Kremlin team dispatched to Budapest, tasked with meddling in the election to bolster Orbán. The Hungarian government insists it knows nothing of the sort. A Válasz Online podcast urges scrutiny of such claims: how credible are the sources (given past government or Panyi fibs on similar matters), and does the story itself hold water (would Moscow truly benefit from an Orbán victory)?
Bye bye Peter Pan, you’ve lost already if these are the tactics your resorting too. The people will vote and decide the charter of this country for the next few years very soon, the political arena is no place for cry babies or sore loosers, maybe be ‘the man’ as it says on your jacket and not a poo-pants!!!
Yeah. “Russia.” Sure. Isn’t it always “Russia”? Can you open a pack of chewing gums anymore without “Putin” jumping out of it?
The whole “Russia” scaremongering bit is really old and tired.
But more importantly, how about we look into Magyar’s “support”? How about the endless propaganda and limitless money coming in from Brussels and Kiev (sorry, “Keeyeev” or whatever)? A two-dollar bill is more authentic than that guy. Smarmy, sleazy puppet of foreign interests. Yuck.
11 football players come to participate in a championship, and what do we get?
Russian spies are already infiltrating… a football field… for a few days before they leave…
Pathetic.
When will there be a televised debate between the two party leaders? Of course, Orban is not man enough to debate Magyar so no debate. The choice for Hungarians is between a fat Russian puppet chicken called Orban and a real man called Magyar.
Orbán is not participating in debates, because he “lost” 2, that he shpuld’ve won, if the media was impartial.
He lost the first by being humiliated with “facts”.
He lost the second by being so focused on facts, that he seemed “cruel”.
The socialists and their media apparatus (at that time some were legally owned by the socialist party, not someone from it, but the socialis party as a legal entity, just to demonstrate how brazen and open they were in their manipulation) wounded him to the point, where he will no longer have a debate.
No, it’s not cowardice, it’s calculation, and paranoia, and memories of the commies framing him to be evil or dumb, whatever he says.
A ‘real man’ does not degrade women in anyway. I would put Peter pan and Jew-lensky in the same class of Anti-hungarian agents of the dark side of poli-ticks.
This is the problem with believing your own propaganda: You knew it was a lie… once. But you stated it so many times, you don’t think that anymore.
As much as I think Magyar is evil, he needs to think otherwise to have some sanity. So he can’t lie constantly, because that would make him evil. So the lie he knows is a lie, has to be true.
Imagine all the pain and suffering he’ll go through, when he lost the election, so his lies are proven to be in fact lies, and he is proven to be evil. I wouldn’t be in his place then.
‘Could Péter Magyar’s lead vanish due to Orbán’s alleged Russian-backed disinformation drive or the mobilisation?’
Magyar Péter does not have a lead, so, no, it cannot vanish, because it does not exist.