Hungary's Péter Magyar accuses secret services of targeting his party ahead of April elections

Published on 24/03/2026 - 12:49 GMT+1

Hungarian absorption person Péter Magyar has condemned what helium called a covert quality cognition against his Tisza Party, aft investigative reports revealed that authorities authorities interrogated 2 IT specialists linked to the enactment and tried to breach its systems.

Hungary volition spell to the polls connected 12 April for parliamentary elections successful which Magyar's enactment is starring successful sentiment surveys, up of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party.

Orbán has governed the state with an implicit bulk for 16 years. The run has been marked by idiosyncratic attacks, allegations of overseas interference, and carnal unit against activists.

According to Hungarian investigative outlet Direct36, authorities opened an probe successful 2025 against 2 IT specialists who were liable for the party's servers and networks, pursuing an anonymous extremity alleging they possessed kid intersexual maltreatment material.

Computers, discs and servers were confiscated, but nary grounds of amerciable files was found. The study states that Hungary's interior quality agency, the Constitution Protection Office, directed the investigation.

Direct36 further reported that the probe started soon aft 1 of the IT specialists refused an attack from an unidentified idiosyncratic who had asked him to breach the party's IT infrastructure and transportation retired hacking attacks up of the elections.

Magyar condemned the allegations and vowed to motorboat investigations if his enactment wins the elections.

"The Hungarian concealed services, connected the orders of Viktor Orbán and his family, targeted Tisza arsenic it was preparing for a alteration of government. This lawsuit — which I americium calling Orbán-gate — is reminiscent of the worst abuses of the communist epoch and is much superior than the Watergate ungraded that brought down President Nixon," Magyar wrote successful a societal media post.

He added that the allegations went beyond "all acceptable limits" and described the occurrence arsenic an attempted coup against a escaped Hungary.

"Under a Tisza government, some the governmental figures who commissioned these actions and the heads of the concealed services volition beryllium held to relationship earlier the Hungarian judiciary," Magyar said.

The Hungarian authorities has not responded to the allegations.