Local elections – Poll shows Fidesz victory expected even among left-wingers

Budapest Mayor István Tarlós is expected to be re-elected in the upcoming local elections even among left-wing voters and joint opposition candidate Gergely Karácsony is seen as having no chance of winning, a new poll released by Századvég on Friday showed.

Altogether 74 percent of respondents said they expect Tarlós to win in the October elections and only 16 percent said Karácsony had better chances. Only 3 percent said that Róbert Puzsér can be expected to win and 1 percent said Krisztián Berki would become Budapest mayor, it said.

Around half of left-wing voters or 49 percent said they did not expect Karácsony to win and only 41 percent said the opposite.

Some 60 percent of the people interviewed expressed satisfaction with the job Tarlós has done as Budapest mayor, while 36 percent were dissatisfied. Karácsony’s mayorship of Budapest’s 14th district was rated as satisfactory by 35 percent and 57 percent said the opposite.

Századvég conducted the poll between September 18 and 21 with a sample of 1,000 adults.

Source: MTI