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Staggering poll results: only 3% between Orbán’s Fidesz and the Tisza Party of Péter Magyar
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Péter Magyar, the leader of the opposition Tisza Party, has rejected the accusation that his party was pro-war, arguing that Tisza was working to achieve peace in Ukraine and opposed weapons deliveries to the country.
In a statement on Friday, Magyar said his party had delivered humanitarian aid to a children’s hospital in Kyiv that had been bombed, while Prime Minister Viktor Orbán “did not even condemn the attack”. Meanwhile, he said, ruling Fidesz was sending Hungarian troops to civil war-torn Chad and building weapons, ammunition and tank factories “which would really be profitable in the event of a war”.
Magyar said recent polls had forced the prime minister “to say the name of the Tisza Party and its leader out loud for the first time” in his Friday morning radio interview. Based on Závecz, the difference between the Fidesz and the Tisza is only 3%, 300,000 votes. He accused Orbán of “lying” and “rambling” about an alliance between Tisza and the leftist Democratic Coalition, “when we have been working on closing the book on the Orbán -[DK leader Ferenc] Gyurcsány era from the beginning”.
Orbán lied
Magyar said Orbán had “lied” about a plan to topple the government from the outside, adding that his party had always stressed its rejection of any outside influence. “We will replace the Orbán government here, at home, with the unity of millions of Hungarians,” he said.
“Orbán also falsely claimed that Tisza would let in illegal migrants, when it was in the European Parliament that I last told him that we support a strict and consistent migration policy and keeping the southern border fence,” Magyar said.
The Tisza Party leader accused the government of having released 2,000 people smugglers from prisons, conducting dealings in residency bonds, “secretly building” a migrant camp near the western border, and bringing 60,000 “economic migrants” a year to Hungary.
Did the people surveyed were Tisza party followers only. Until further data is revealed as what section of the population was surveyed, who did the survey, the data is meaningless.
At what point do the Hungarian television networks actually invite Peter Magyar for an interview for broadcast? Perhaps not until he actually forms a government. Maybe not even then.
If Orbán has to lose, it’s better to Magyar than to the unsavoury coalition organise by Gyurcsányi involving the fascist Jobbik and the far-left greens. We all know that they would just do whatever Brussels tells them to, whereas it seems that Magyar would wish to maintain Hungary’s independence.
No EU puppet should ever be elected in Hungary. Magyar would be advantageous to the EU dictators and not to the people of Hungary.