The rural voter base of the governing parties is much more diverse than many would assume: there are a good number of people who have moved out of Budapest and young people in their ranks. Demokrata's report is about electoral district 3 of Fejér county, that is, from the heart of Pannonia, where Fidesz won all but one of the electoral districts.

- If we compare it with the 2018 election, we received 10-15 percent more votes than the result at that time - points out Zoltán Tessely , the parliamentary representative of the constituency. He sees it as a rule of thumb that a very successful election campaign can add roughly five percent to the result, but now the increase was three times that. The representative was also able to win four years ago, but this time he managed to collect 32,520 votes, while the candidate of the unified opposition, Péter Balázs,  received only 18,092. Moreover, even if the votes of all the starting parties, Mi Hazánk, MKKP, Memo, and the Labor Party–ISZOMM, had strengthened Balázs, even then he would not be able to catch up with Zoltán Tessely.

Compared to 28,415 votes in 2018, this means more than four thousand new voters, which the representative and his team consider to be an outstanding result.

- We had a lot of helpers during the campaign period. Nearly a thousand people took part in the work in the heart of Pannonia, and it is thanks to them that our messages reached the voters. Our assistants shared with the people the results of the previous years and drew attention to what is at stake if Viktor Orbán cannot continue to govern - sums up the representative. In 2019, his opponent was able to conquer a voting district in Bicske and also won in the opposition primary, but this time he did not run a particularly strong campaign.

- We had the feeling that the opposition did not really take this constituency seriously. A photo of my opponent was taken in each of the thirty-five settlements, to prove that he had been there. But a more serious appearance or meaningful messages were already missing from his campaign , states Zoltán Tessely.

Source: Democrat

Author: Dániel Kovács

Photo: György T. Szántó