“Orbangate” in Hungary. Agent “Henry” was to infiltrate the opposition TISHA party

The Hungarian investigative portal Direkt36 revealed on Tuesday an attempt to infiltrate the opposition TISZA party by the secret services. The head of the group and leader of the Hungarian opposition, Peter Magyar, compared the scandal to the Watergate scandal and “the darkest days of communism.”

According to Direkt36's findings, an agent operating under the pseudonym “Henry” tried to infiltrate Tisza in 2025, trying to recruit two IT specialists working for the party. The goal was to gain access to the data of the most important opposition party.

The operation ultimately ended in failure, and shortly afterwards the National Bureau of Investigation received an anonymous report that the same IT specialists were preparing to film scenes of child sexual abuse and publish the material on the Internet. Police searched both men's homes but found nothing to substantiate the allegations.

Behind the scenes of Agent “Henry's” failed operation

Hungarian media noted that the police did not initiate an investigation to determine who “Henry” was, nor did they undertake to investigate a possible connection between the November leak of data of Tisza's supporters from the party's mobile application and the operation conducted by this agent.

Direkt36 reported that “Henry” in conversations with one of the IT specialists described himself as an employee of a “large, all-seeing organization” whose command “sees the party (Tisza – PAP) as a much greater threat than before.”

Péter Magyar: These are the darkest days of Hungary

Peter Magyar commented on the matter on Tuesday. He wrote on the website The “Orbangate” case, as Magyar called it, “recalls the darkest days of communism and is even more serious than the Watergate scandal that led to the fall of (US President) Richard Nixon.”

Under Tisza's rule, both political appointees and the heads of the intelligence services will be answerable to the Hungarian justice system. We will get our country back. In 19 days, the will of the Hungarian people will defeat the regime built on fear, emphasized the leader of the Hungarian opposition.

The elections in Hungary will take place on April 12. TISHA is ahead of Orban's Fidesz in most independent polls; in a February survey by Median, this party gained a 20-point advantage among decisive voters.

Jakub Bawołek from Budapest (PAP)

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