EP Election 2024 – survey: new Hungarian Tisza party is already the strongest opposition force

A month before the European parliamentary elections, the list of the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrats (KDNP) alliance would garner the support of 48 percent of voters, according to a survey by government-related Nézőpont.

The phone poll conducted between April 29 and May 2 with a 1,000-strong sample showed that Péter Magyar’s Tisza party would get 21 percent of the vote, the coalition of the Democratic Coalition, the Socialists and Párbeszéd 12 percent, and the Two-tailed Dog party (MKKP) 7 percent, the pollster said.

It said that the radical Mi Hazánk party stood at 5 percent, while Momentum and Jobbik both polled at 1 percent, far below the parliamentary threshold. Vona Gábor’s party (3 percent), Második Reformkor (2RK), is ahead of them but also cannot count on getting in.

If the parliamentary elections were held this Sunday, Fidesz-KDNP would get 44 percent of the vote, on par with its performance in 2014, the pro-government survey said. Support for opposition parties would be similar to that in the EP elections, with 22 percent of voters supporting the Tisza party, 13 percent the DK-Socialists-Párbeszéd alliance, 7 percent voting for MKKP, and 6 percent for Mi Hazánk, Nézőpont said.

LMP and Péter Márki-Zay’s party, the Everybody’s Hungary People’s Party, would only garner 1 percent of the vote each, Nézőpont said.

As we reported on Sunday, Péter Magyar’s party held a huge rally in Debrecen, the “Fidesz capital” – details, PHOTOS

As we wrote earlier, 13 parties or party alliances have submitted lists for the upcoming European parliamentary elections, 11 of which have been supported by valid signatures of the required minimum of 20,000 voters. Details are here.