Even the absolute majority of left-wing voters do not agree with Péter Márki-Zay's statements criticizing utility cuts or his vision for healthcare reform, according to a survey by the Nézőpont Institute, in which they examined how the public thinks about the best-known campaign statements of the candidate of the left 65 days before the parliamentary election.
During the research, the respondents were asked about the content of four ideas formulated by Márki-Zay. Márki-Zay's name was not mentioned in the question, and the original sentences were shortened, but their essential content elements were not changed.
Three-quarters of voters, i.e. 75 percent, answered that "the current utility reduction should not be maintained", and only one in five respondents, 19 percent, agreed with Péter Márki-Zay.
It is telling that six out of ten left-wing voters do not agree with the left's joint Prime Minister candidate on the issue (33 percent agree with him). The statement was rejected by 91 percent of Fidesz voters.
Source: Viewpoint Institute, Hungarian Nation
Four fifths of active voters, exactly 79 percent, do not agree with the statement that "instead of the current utility reduction, if utilities are high, less water, less electricity, and less gas should be used", only 17 percent of voters agree similarly. 64 percent of left-wing voters do not share the opinion of the mayor of Hódmezővásárhely (28 percent agree). Among the voters of the governing parties, nine out of ten (91 percent) disagree.
Nine out of ten voters do not even agree that "statistics should be kept on who is a Gypsy and who is not a Gypsy in Hungary."
Regarding the statement, there is a great unity between pro-government and government-critical voters: 87-87 percent of both left-wing and right-wing voters reject the statement (eight and nine percent agree, respectively). Four-fifths of active voters, i.e. 81 percent, do not even agree that "it is better if health care is a business than if it is not a business" (11 percent agree). Seven out of ten left-wing voters also reject Márki-Zay's statement, and only 17 percent of the respondents indicated that they agree with the statement. Ninety percent of the voters of the governing parties also reject that healthcare is a business.
Source and image: Magyar Nemzet/Nézőpont Institute
Featured image: István Mirkó/MN
