The opposition is still not able to offer people a viable alternative - said a staff member of Nézőpont in his analysis sent to the Hungarian Nation about the results of Sunday's interim local government elections. The Center for Fundamental Rights reminds us that 28 out of 32 seats were won by the Fidesz candidate.

Sunday's by-election results can be interpreted as a continuation of the Fidesz triumphal march and the opposition's deep flight since April 3

Krisztián Talabér stated in his analysis sent to the Magyar Nemzet. The analyst of the Nézőpont Institute believes that there can be no talk of a reorganization in terms of party power relations, essentially the results of the parliamentary elections have been confirmed. According to Talabér, one of the reasons for this is that the voters believe in Fidesz's ability to govern not only at the national level, but also at the municipal level.

And the opposition is still unable to offer the people a consumable alternative.

Sunday's election results clearly indicate the changing mood of the opposition. It is worth looking at the results in Erzsébetváros: half of the opposition voters did not cast their votes for traditional left-wing forces, but for alternative opposition parties. The opposition voters therefore punished the left by looking for alternative parties on the one hand, and by staying at home on the other, he added.

Based on these, Krisztián Talabér concluded that

voters who are critical of the government do not ask for either the program of the left-liberals or their political elite. The problem is further deepened by the Gyurcsány phenomenon: there would be a demand from the opposition camp for a Gyurcsány-free left wing, but the political supply does not adapt to this, because the fallen prime minister is still the leading politician of the left wing, and the other parties are still looking for him to this day the possibility of cooperation, and they still do not distance themselves from it.

- Due to all of this, the result of our latest party preference research, which states that 12 percent of active voters can be considered critical of the government as they cannot choose from the current political offer, did not come as a surprise. They make up the camp of the disillusioned oppositionists - concluded the Nezőpont analyst.

The Fidesz-KDNP candidate - or the candidate supported by the party alliance - ran in 32 places in Sunday's local government elections. Of these, the right won in 28 places and only lost in four places (Újpest, Kiskőrös, Békéscsaba, Nyírpilis). The Fidesz candidates received an average of 66.7 percent of the vote, while the second-placed candidates received only 28 percent - this was already written by the Center for Fundamental Rights in its analysis.

The by-elections just held only confirmed the results of April 3rd

- the analysis institute learned the lesson.

– I don't see that the voters unanimously demand that the full comparison between the opposition parties be even stronger. When there was competition within the opposition, we had a million more voters and many more mandates - LMP's Péter Ungár responded on Facebook to Gergely Karácsony's comments about Sunday's elections.

According to the mayor, the voters sent a message on Sunday that the competition within the opposition will lead nowhere.

After that, Péter Ungár asked the mayor that "if he is so sure of his position, he should first try to get it through his own party, because Párbeszéd was the first to announce that he would run separately in the EP elections".

Source. Hungarian Nation

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