The leader of the Hungarian opposition, Péter Hungarianhas warned of the latest low blow that the cabinet of Viktor Orbán to sink the popularity of the opposition leader, favorite in the polls to replace the prime minister.
As Magyar reported on the social network He states that he has been receiving threats for some time, but assures that “he will not give in to blackmail.”
During his message on social networks, the president of the Hungarian party Tisza (Respect and Freedom) explains that “many journalists have received a link showing a room monitored by cameras, probably made with secret service equipment.”
In the same text, the main adversary of the Budapest Government says that he understands that the coercion he is suffering has the “intention of disseminating a recording of an intimate moment.”
In parallel, he has made reference to this attempt at intimidation, ensuring that it is “a 45-year-old man, with a sexual life.”
After divorcing Judit Vargawith whom he had three children, Magyar left Orbán’s party and founded Tisza in 2024, today the country’s main political force.
This issue represents a sensitive problem for the opposition leader, since Hungary is a country with conservative ideas where divorce and sexual content have great value.
This Thursday, again anticipating the spread of the video, Magyar published a recorded statement in which he accused his ex-partner Evelin Vogel of setting him up to secretly record how they had sex in August 2024.
Then they were no longer together, but that day Vogel invited him to a house party, which he attended and “allowed himself to be seduced,” the Tisza leader alleged.
Vogel flatly rejected the accusations through a letter published in the independent Hungarian media 444: “I will only say that I am deeply saddened that Péter accuses me of this and that public life has reached this point.”
“As a woman, perhaps I am the one who handles this case the worst; it would be something unprecedented in Hungarian public life to subject two people to such a level of humiliation,” the letter states. “No one in their right mind can think that I participated in this, and even less that I did it with the Russian secret services… I know exactly the same about this video as Péter or public opinion.”
Patriots, at risk
The ideological role it represents Viktor Orbán in the doctrinal architecture of the European right will turn the legislative elections to be held in Hungary in April 2026 in the most important event of the year.
Although the Magyar nation only represents a population of 9,500,000 inhabitants, Orbán’s weight goes far beyond the citizenship of his country. The Fidesz leader is the longest-serving head of government in the European Union (EU), a position he has held for 16 years.
Since his arrival to power in 2010, Orbán’s figure had never been so discussed, heavily criticized from abroad for his extremist positions on some issues, especially his rejection of irregular immigration or sensitive issues such as abortion or rights of the LGTBI community.
The hypothetical fall of Orbán would also be a severe setback for the international conglomerate of parties located in the orbit of Patriots, the European family in which VOX has found itself since Abascal ordered to leave Meloni’s European parliamentary group of ECR.
Currently, the delegation sent by Hungary is one of the largest in the European family, surpassed only by France, with the National Group of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, current president of the coalition.
However, this time, the problem for Orbán is the drop in internal popularity. The Hungarian leader seems in danger for the first time, according to the latest polls published in the Magyar country.
According to the latest survey carried out by Median, the Fidesz would lose by a wide margin against an opposition concentrated in TISZA, led by the pro-European Péter Hungariana former official in the administration headed by the Orbán administration.
The polling trend has remained stable since 2025, when the polling curve began to bend for the current prime minister. The opposition has a distance of more than 10 points, two months before the elections.
For his part, Orbán is trying to make a comeback by granting benefits to women and the elderly. Their main strategy is based on presenting Magyar as a “puppet” of the EU:
“They want to replace me with a ‘puppet’ that does not represent the interests of Hungarians,” he has repeatedly repeated during his latest actions, in which he denounces the existence of a plot from Brussels that seeks to suffocate Hungary due to its continuous vetoes of certain policies.
In contrast, Tisza’s response has been to avoid any type of relationship with European liberalsdespite being part of the European Popular Family (EPP) in which the Popular Party is located.
In Brussels, his party, which defines itself as centre-right, has challenged three times the postulates of his groupcausing internal concern. The latest measure, reject safeguard measures aimed at protecting Hungarian farmers.
As the party delegation conveyed in a statement, “Tisza is on the side of Hungarian farmers, even when that means going against the grain in Brussels,” in relation to protection measures that Mercosur has already warned are not reciprocal.
In this context, the danger that Orbán will lose power after the electoral elections and with it the greatest exponent of the ‘radical right’ in Europe will fall. It represents a risk that the Republican administration led by Trump does not want to take.
That is why, for several months now, it has been produced an increase in the intensity of the relationship between both countrieswith the ultimate goal that Orbán can revalidate his power at the polls for four more years.
To demonstrate the strength of this union, the secretary of state of the United States, Marco Rubiowill visit Budapest to promote the bilateral agenda with special emphasis on international peace processes and the energy relationship between both countries