Hungary’s future prime minister, Péter Magyar, is already causing a diplomatic stir before officially taking office. He confirmed that he had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Budapest—but at the same time made it clear that Netanyahu would end up behind bars in Hungary.

According to the future prime minister, the invitation was part of a general gesture extended to all heads of state and government whom he had invited to Budapest to mark the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution. When asked whether he had explicitly pointed out the impending arrest to Benjamin Netanyahu in a personal conversation, Péter Magyar responded with quick wit. "I do not have to spell everything out over the phone. I assume that every head of state and government is aware of the international legal situation,” he explained. He had not sold anyone a “pig in a poke”—the legal facts were out in the open for everyone to see, he added.