Márki-Zay went into Telex and questioned the journalists as to why they reported on the Závecz research with a title unfavorable to him.
"If I had paid for this research, and it was unfavorable for the opposition, then I certainly wouldn't publish it," said the candidate for prime minister, who only "speculates" on who might be behind Závecz's survey.
Péter Márki-Zay caused unpleasant moments for Tamás Fábián in Telex's Wednesday evening analysis program.
was asked Závecz survey caused a great response A week ago, Márki-Zay harshly criticized Telex for selecting this from the research.
Now he was asked why he doesn't believe this research, since in October he fought for Gergely Karácsony to step down in the opposition primaries based on just such research.
Márki-Zay said: he demoted Gergely Karácsony based on not one, but three surveys, he believes that "it was authentic".
"Last week's research was a survey of 1,000 people, and they didn't include notoriety. So it's very easy: if a hundred people know someone and 50 people say something positive about him, then we can say that his popularity is 50 percent. Another person who is known by 100,000 people and who, say, 40 percent think is positive, has 40 percent popularity. But this is not comparable," argued Márki-Zay.
"Let's look at the intention: to publish a completely irrelevant research before the elections and to feature it in the main place - someone just paid for it - and to draw the conclusion from it that everyone is already more popular than Péter Márki-Zay... and not to highlight this , that this research showed that I am the most popular among all opposition voters, and the least popular among Fidesz voters. Now, this is also news," continued Márki-Zay.
Tamás Fábián argued that giving titles is part of editorial freedom.
“Yes, but if I had paid for this research and it was unfavorable to the opposition, I would certainly not publish it. If Fidesz accidentally receives a piece of research that is unfavorable to it, it never publishes it. What compelled someone to pay for this research and then publish it? One result of this may be that the opposition voters become uncertain"
said the candidate for prime minister, who by his own admission is "speculating" who might be behind the research.
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