The subtitles on a video uploaded to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Facebook page over the weekend said: "Stop! Tisza representatives are working against Hungarians. This is unprecedented in public life since the Oszod speech."
The video contained details from PM Orbán's interview with Andras Hont, a host of the TV program Ot (Five) and posted on the program's YouTube channel on Thursday.
PM Orbán said, "Unprecedented things usually make a big noise in politics." He pointed to then Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány's speech before party members in Balatonoszod in 2006 as an example, saying: "When a politician says we lied ... day and night, that we used hundreds of tricks to get to power, people are astounded."
"We now also suspect that there are MEPs who are not above working against their own homeland," PM Orbán said.
PM Orbán also commented on a clip featuring Tisza MEP Kinga Kollar, saying, "It's positive that the deteriorating quality of life of Hungarians is strengthening the opposition." Orban said "when one hears with one's own ear, and sees someone say 'We have managed to thwart the reconstruction of 50 hospitals", or managed to stop the government from improving the quality of public services ... when [we hear] people say they are glad that Hungary has economic difficulties and directly working to achieve that end, then ... one says: Stop, stop!"
"In that, it is truly a new era, because nothing like that happened before," he said.