Ex-wife hits out at Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar, calling him a traitor

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The ex-wife of Hungary's guidance leader Péter Magyar has repeated accusations of home unit and blackmail against her erstwhile husband after a tribunal proceeding successful Budapest.

Judit Varga was nan justness curate of Hungary for years and a adjacent state of Viktor Orbán. After their divorce, her ex-husband founded nan guidance statement Tisza, which is now starring Viktor Orbán's Fidesz successful polls up of important parliamentary elections adjacent year.

Judit Varga was summoned to a tribunal proceeding arsenic a witnesser successful Budapest connected Thursday related to a bribery lawsuit successful her ministry, successful which her erstwhile lawman is an accused. After nan hearing, erstwhile she was asked whether she mightiness make a imaginable comeback to nationalist life, she lashed retired astatine Péter Magyar to reporters.

"I don't want to tally successful this title if a point called Péter Magyar is successful nan running," Varga said.

She went connected to reprise accusations that she had antecedently levelled against her ex-husband a twelvemonth and a half ago.

"Betrayal is not an achievement, particularly not if it's a betrayal of our ain family," she added.

She referred to a sound record that was secretly recorded by Magyar backmost successful 2003 erstwhile Varga was still nan Minister of Justice successful Viktor Orbán's government. On this sound file, Varga and Magyar tin beryllium heard successful a backstage conversation, successful which Varga referred to authorities interference successful a tribunal case, and Varga suggests a curate put unit connected prosecutors to delete delicate lines from a document. Magyar released nan recordings aft founding nan guidance Tisza party in 2024.

Judit Varga speaks astir blackmail, Magyar claims its government's deception

""What benignant of personification is this? When his woman tin nary longer carnivore nan unthinkable play and maltreatment she is surviving done and announces that she wants a divorce, he uses this vile manipulation. And while he is crying and begging, alternately terrorizing her that he can't divorcement her, he starts blackmailing her," Varga said.

Hungarian pro-government politicians and media person slammed Magyar for taping backstage conversations pinch his wife. As nan predetermination run due gets underway, Magyar is coming nether much pressure. On societal media, authorities politicians and media personalities echoed solidarity pinch Varga.

Péter Magyar has consistently denied claims of home unit complete nan past one-and-a-half years and was speedy to respond to nan accusations of his ex successful societal media posts.

"Neither now, nor successful nan future, do I wish to respond to nan accusations of this repeated propaganda. I wish that my erstwhile woman lived peacefully," he said, adding that nan contented of nan sound files he recorded pinch his then-wife was clear.

"With specified a ungraded successful a existent democracy, pinch genuine norm of law, nan authorities would fail, and ministers would beryllium detained. This will still hap eventually, but pinch a spot of delay," Magyar said, touting his imaginable predetermination triumph adjacent year.

Magyar later posted again claiming that nan authorities was aiming to deflect attraction from authorities members avoiding being jailed. "That's why they tried to resistance nan tribunal proceeding into nan bog of lying tabloids again," Magyar added.

Bitter divorcement successful nan governmental spotlight

Judit Varga and Péter Magyar divided successful 2023, and soon afterwards, Varga resigned arsenic justness curate successful nan aftermath of nan infamous amnesty scandal. In this, a man who helped to screen up a paedophile crime successful an orphanage received a statesmanlike pardon, countersigned by Varga arsenic Minister of Justice. The ungraded severely damaged nan government's reputation, and soon after, Péter Magyar founded his guidance statement Tisza. According to caller sentiment polls, Tisza could beryllium successful nan lead up of Viktor Orbán's Fidesz, if elections were held now.

Political expert Szabolcs Dull said Varga's remarks reinforced nan government's communicative against Péter Magyar.

"By speaking astir Péter Magyar, and calling him a animal who abused her mentally, this is strengthening nan government's narrative. Judit Varga managed to divert nan communicative that ministers had already been questioned successful nan tribunal lawsuit and she managed to divert nan communicative to nan level of her narration pinch Péter Magyar. Judit Varga's reside was useful for Fidesz," he said.

Szabolcs Dull added that even if Varga doesn't return to Hungarian politics, she could beryllium useful to nan authorities successful nan predetermination run against Péter Magyar.