Thirty-seven percent of young people who voted for the first time would like to take a picture together with Viktor Orbán, who leads the selfie championship among leading politicians with a considerable advantage.

- this was revealed by the latest survey of the Youth Research Institute and Tarsadalomkutató Kft. The prime minister is followed by the president of the republic, Katalin Novák, on the popularity list, with whom about twenty-three percent of 18-21-year-olds would take a picture together.

The majority of the opposition leaders, on the other hand, achieved much less, around ten percent or even worse. More than one in ten 18-21-year-olds would take a photo with Péter Márki-Zay, the opposition's former candidate for prime minister (12 percent), compared to the sixteen percent result of Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony. They are followed by Dóra Duró, Péter Jakab, László Toroczkai and András Fekete-Győr with a result of around ten percent. Even fewer people would show themselves in a picture with the Gyurcsány couple, nine percent of young Hungarians would take a selfie with Ferenc Gyurcsány and Klára Dobrev.

In addition to sympathies and dislikes, familiarity is also a key factor, in which the leading opposition politicians overall lag behind the prime minister and the president of the republic.

 MSZP co-chairman Bertalan Tóth is the least known, most people said they don't know him (43 percent), but for about a third of the first voters, the names of Anna Donáth, Ágnes Kunhalmi and László Toroczkai don't sound familiar either, in fact András Fekete-Győr's former Momentum - the president is also unknown to more than a quarter of young people (27 percent).

The results of the research lead to the conclusion that the person of Viktor Orbán has a serious appeal even among the age group of first voters, and there is no politician with comparable popularity in the opposition field. It is noteworthy that almost three-quarters (72 percent) of the youngest voters said that they would not like to be in a joint picture with Péter Márki-Zay, ahead of the traditionally highly rejected Ferenc Gyurcsány.

This overturned the claim, which was often voiced in the campaign, that Péter Márki-Zay can appeal to young people critical of the government more effectively than other opposition politicians.

Source: Hungarian Nation

Cover photo:  Prime Minister Viktor Orbán among young people (Photo: MTI/Prime Minister's Press Office/Benko Vivien Cher)