Only 25 percent of Hungarians like the leader of Tisza

That way, there will be no absolute majority, no change of government, Petya!

According to a survey conducted by the Nézőpont Institute in the second week of the audio recording case, the majority of Hungarians (55 percent) do not like Péter Magyar, and according to a relative majority, he should withdraw from public life.

The case of the quotes from Péter Magyar caused a great deal of interest and many reactions in Hungarian society, so the Nézőpont Institute investigated their impact on political competition in a separate study - read on the website of the Nézőpont Institute.

Based on the survey conducted this week, the absolute majority of Hungarians do not like Péter Magyar. We asked the respondents to evaluate on a scale from 1 to 5, according to their school grades, how sympathetic the leader of the Tisza Party is to them.

45 percent of the respondents gave an insufficient grade and another 10 percent a sufficient grade,

that is, 55 percent of them do not consider the politician sympathetic. 15 percent of the respondents gave good marks, another 10 percent gave excellent marks, i.e. 25 percent found Péter Magyar to be more likable.

At the same time, a high sympathy index is not necessarily necessary for successful political participation. That is why we also asked the Hungarians whether their opinion of Péter Magyar had changed "due to the audio recordings made public last week". Although 72 percent of them did not change their opinion, 19 percent reported a deterioration, and only 4 percent said that their opinion had improved.

Péter Magyar wants to win with an absolute majority or even more in 2026

The research also asked about the consequences of leaking audio recordings. First, we asked Hungarians who were interviewed as a representative sample of adult Hungarian society to evaluate, using their current knowledge, whether it was right that Péter Magyar took up his seat in the European Parliament. (The party president himself promised in the summer that after half a year he would vote on the issue again on his Facebook page.)

Knowing about the audio recording scandal, the relative majority of Hungarians, i.e. 47 percent, said that the recording of the EP mandate was not correct

and only 39 percent believed that the decision against the campaign promise was correct. At the same time, 85 percent of Tisza voters consider Péter Magyar's decision correct (7 percent do not), perhaps because of the protection of immunity.

Finally, we also asked the respondents to make a decision about Péter Magyar's future role in public life based on his statements, which were hard to explain in several cases, which we learned from the audio recordings.

At the beginning of the question, we recorded that "due to what was said on the leaked audio recording, some people think that Péter Magyar should withdraw from public life, while others think that there is no reason to withdraw."

Of the two options, a relative majority (45 percent) chose to retire, while 43 percent chose to continue political activity.

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