Recently, Péter Magyar has become "disenchanted" and lost his "super ability", stated Gergely Huth, editor-in-chief of Pesti Srácok and Sámuel Ágoston Mráz, owner of the Nézőpont Institute.

According to Nézőpont's survey, even 40 percent of Tisza voters do not like Péter Magyar, and the party chairman's aggressive behavior is hindering the construction of the party.

Sámuel Ágoston Mráz, founder and owner of the Nézőpont Institute, was a guest of the Pesti Srácok podcast, who analyzed the popularity of Péter Magyar and the Tisza Party in conversation with Gergelly Huth, and then discussed the renewal of Fidesz.

At the beginning of the conversation, Gergely Huth expressed the concern of the "national side" that if the Tisza Party continues to grow in this trend, then Fidesz will not be able to win the 2026 parliamentary elections.

Although according to the public opinion poll of the Median Institute, known for its most accurate measurements, the gap between the two parties was practically closed, the Nézőpont Institute measured a fairly significant difference between Fidesz-KDNP and Tisza. According to this, among the entire population, the government parties have 47 percent of support, while Péter Magyar's would only get 33 percent of the votes in the elections. In the Pesti Srácok program, among other things, these results were analyzed. The most important details of the conversation are summarized below.

• According to Mráz Ágoston Sámuel, Fidesz strengthened by 2 percentage points during the flood defense, while Tisza weakened by the same amount, because according to him, Péter Magyar was the only one who did not do useful work and engaged in party political battles.

• He recalled that while Szilárd Németh and Lénárd Borbély were able to get together, and Gergely Karácsony and Viktor Orbán listened to the flood defense together, Péter Magyar tried to generate a "protest atmosphere", educate and give unsolicited advice. According to him, this role was not liked by the Tisza voters either.

• However, according to Mráz, the institute's recent survey does not represent a trend reversal, it may only be the effect of one week, so if Péter Magyar can gather all the anti-government voters, then a closer match can be expected.

• He considers it completely understandable that DK, which is hovering around the entrance threshold, is experiencing an existential threat because the Tisza will take away the "show" from them and Péter Magyar wants to win over its voters instead of the old political class.

• According to Gergely Huth, Péter Magyar has recently become "disenchanted" and lost his "super ability". Mráz confirmed this, since according to a survey by the Nézőpont Institute, even 40 percent of Tisza voters do not like the party leader. "Whether it's his already mentioned misbehavior at the dams or his three TV and radio interviews last week, they all created an image of him as an aggressive, undisciplined personality," he added.

• He sees that this will be an obstacle to the increase in popularity of Péter Magyar, as he believes that the Tisza Party is nothing more than the party of Péter Magyar, so if his popularity and sympathy index cannot increase, then it can also be an obstacle for the Tisza Party.

• He sees Péter Magyar's previous popularity in the fact that Viktor Orbán was on vacation in August, which the Tisza Party president took advantage of, but in the fall the head of government returned with "strong messages, economic ideas, and an active foreign policy", which shook up the Fidesz camp, while Péter Magyar was pushed into the background.

• According to the owner of the Nézőpont Institute, the president of the Tisza Party did not understand that in an extraordinary situation the voters - even his own voters - demand a different type of role.

• Viktor Orbán and Fidesz have so far taken all their challengers seriously and fought them. According to Mráz, the parts of the speech in Kötcs that have been released to the public prove that this will also be the case now. He believes that the renewal of the party and the government has begun, but the results of this will be visible by the spring of 2025.

• Mráz believes that criticism is correct because those who criticize do so because they trust the government and that they can correct mistakes. According to him, despite the criticism from within, there is no sign that the Fidesz camp is not closely united and that this trust has run out.

• Péter Magyar initially claimed that he would create a party in the middle, but this "stage show" is over, according to him, and it only appeals to voters who hate the government. The Tisza Party tries to make people believe that it is a national party with the flags with holes, but it cannot appeal to the voters of the "national side".

• According to Sámuel Ágoston Mráz, Balázs Orbán's scandalous statements about Ukraine do not cause damage to Fidesz, as right-wing voters expect those who make mistakes to correct them. He believes that Balázs Orbán did this, that the "left-wing media outlets" are trying in vain to create a scandal, this matter is already closed.

• By becoming a party politician, Dávid Vitézy used tactics, even though he should know that the trust of the electorate must be guarded as a treasure, because it is very difficult to get it back.

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