If the EP elections were held this Sunday, the ruling party would obtain 56 percent, and due to the elimination of many opposition dwarf parties, this could even mean three quarters of the mandates for it, according to the latest opinion poll of the Nézőpont Institute. The survey also shows that the state of the national party competition has essentially remained unchanged since the fall of 2022, Magyar Nemzet wrote.
More than half of the respondents indicated that they would take part in a hypothetical EP election, according to research by the Nézőpont Institute. The institute draws attention to the fact that nearly five hundred days before the 2024 European Parliament and municipal elections, a key question is how the Hungarian parties would perform in the survey.
"After the knockout race last April, the opposition has apparently not found itself yet, so in the current situation it can hardly squeeze the government side," they wrote. Among those who indicated that they would participate in a hypothetical EP election, 56 percent would vote for the joint list of Fidesz-KDNP, which would correspond to the top result of the governing parties in 2009. DK would finish in second place, with 14 percent, which is slightly below its 2019 result. Momentum would reach six percent, which is four percentage points less than in 2019. Mi Hazánk would receive six percent, just like Jobbik four years ago.
This would mean three mandates for DK and one mandate each for Momentum and Mi Hazánk out of the 21 that can be allocated.
All other parties would be below the five percent threshold, 18 percent of those intending to vote would vote for them, and 14 percent of them would be given to the political forces on the 2022 left-wing joint list, and the remaining four percent to the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party.
the entire article of the Democrat here.
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