For a sense of the wild accusations bandied about ahead of Hungary’s pivotal parliamentary election this Sunday, look no further than Viktor Orbán’s reaction to an alleged attempt to blow up a cross-border gas pipeline over the Easter weekend.
“I think Hungary is safe now,” said the prime minister, a pioneering champion of “illiberal democracy”, after rushing to the scene and insinuating Ukraine was behind the foiled attack.
Foreign interference has been a dominant Orbán motif throughout his campaigning for a contest that Zselyke Csáky at the Centre for European Reform in Budapest terms “the EU’s most important election” not just this year but for “quite some time”.
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