Peter Magyar hasn't even taken office yet and is already dropping bombs. At his press conference after the election victory, he claimed Viktor Orban sent thousands of migrants toward the Slovak border to help Robert Fico win the 2023 elections.

"Unlike Orban, we will not release 2,200 convicted human smugglers from Hungarian prisons. We will not transport migrants to the Slovak border just because it suits our socialist friend in Slovakia during an election campaign," Magyar said.

Waves at a border that never existed before

The facts are undisputed: weeks before Slovakia's 2023 elections, Slovakia recorded a sudden surge of migrants from Hungary - at sections of the border where such flows had never existed. Migration became the central election issue, and Fico exploited it to the maximum. Immediately after elections, the pressure at the border rapidly ceased.

Political analyst Radoslav Stefancik asked whether strict border management alone could explain such a sharp drop: "The interior minister isn't Harry Potter."

Opposition accuses, Fico stays silent

Slovakia's opposition Democrats party openly accused: "If it's true that Fico knowingly helped create a migrant crisis, it represents cynical abuse of security issues for manipulation." KDH demands a parliamentary investigation, and the Hnutie Slovensko movement filed criminal charges.

Fico is still silent. His foreign minister dismissed the claim as "absurd," and the parliamentary vice-president said you'd need "a good sense of humor" for it.

Magyar wasn't an outside observer - he was part of Orban's system. If he knows, he knows firsthand. And if he's saying it publicly, he clearly reckons the upside outweighs the risk. The Balkans know: when the new boss starts with accusations against the predecessor, it's either justice or positioning. Most often - both.