06.04.2026, Budapest.
If Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban manages to master the situation involving Ukraine’s gas pipeline sabotage plot in Serbia, he will be able to turn it to his advantage in the upcoming elections, Rossa Primavera News Agency Europe Desk wrote on April 5.
On April 5, Serbian special services intercepted two bags containing powerful explosives and detonators in dangerous proximity to a section of the TurkStream pipeline, through which Russian gas flows to Hungary. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić informed the Hungarian government about the discovery and stated that any attempts at terrorist attacks on energy infrastructure would be harshly and mercilessly suppressed.
Orban convened an emergency meeting of the country’s Security Council. The authorities has ordered heightened security measures along the gas pipeline, from the Serbia–Hungary border to the Hungary–Slovakia border.
Parliamentary elections will be held in Hungary on April 12, and Viktor Orban’s political future is currently at stake. His ruling party, Fidesz, is losing support in its struggle against the opposition party Tisza, which is backed by both Ukraine and Brussels. Orban has built his campaign largely on foreign policy issues to contrast them with the arguments of Tisza leader Péter Magyar focused on domestic situation, who accuses the government of corruption and cronyism among senior officials. Therefore, such an overt and brazen act of sabotage by Kiev may persuade undecided voters to support Orban once again.
Earlier, an adviser to the head of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Pero Simić, stated that Magyar is needed only to remove Orban’s team from power and lead Hungary toward a “color revolution.”
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
