BUDAPEST, Oct. 19 -- Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar has accused his predecessor, Viktor Orban, of plotting a state coup over a remark about handing out "appropriate tools," and has warned him of criminal prosecution. TASS reported the accusation on Sunday.

Orban, who was re-elected Fidesz leader in June after his party's April election defeat, was meeting party activists in the city of Lakitelek. Asked about the "national resistance" he had announced earlier, he said the country is not yet ready for that, but that Fidesz already could "hand appropriate tools." He then added, in a tone TASS called ironic, that "whether people get something blunter or sharper isn't really the point."

In his Facebook post, as TASS rendered it, Magya...