This is the Hungarians’ opinion about Biden, Zelensky and Putin
According to the latest poll by Századvég, Hungarians think that politicians involved in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict do not necessarily seek to promote peace. In addition, the majority of the respondents do not symphatise with either Putin, Biden or Zelenskiy.
Powerful political leaders lost their appeal
Compared to the data in May, the perception of political leaders has changed for the worse.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s unpopularity rose from 65 to 68 percent from May to June, while U.S. President Joe Biden’s rose from 62 to 64 percent.
Zelenskiy and his staff have criticized Hungary on several occasions, which might have been a contributing factor to the Ukrainian president’s loss of popularity in Hungary. – reports liner.hu. Oleksy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, accused Hungary of having territorial claims against Ukraine. What is more, Zeklensky complained that the Hungarian government had fought to be exempt from the Brussels oil embargo proposal.
The view about Vladimir Putin remains unchanged
While other political leaders have lost some sympathizers, Putin’s perception seems to have stagnated.
The number of those who expressed a negative opinion about Vladimir Putin did not change during the period under review, with 72-72 percent of respondents belonging to this group in both May and June.
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Ursula von der Leyen
For the first time, the researchers examined the popularity of the President of the European Commission. It turns out that Ursula von der Leyen is considered a rather negative public figure in Hungary.
Almost half of the Hungarians (49 percent) disapprove of Ursula von der Leyen and her acts, with only 33 percent showing a positive attitude towards the President of the European Commission.
The negative perception of Ursula von der Leyen can be attributed to the fact that despite the distressing situation caused by the Russo-Ukraine war, she announced that Brussels would launch a rule of law mechanism against Hungary to freeze certain EU funds.
Hungary stands on the side of peace
83 percent of Hungarians believe that countries affected by the war should immediately sit down at a negotiating table and reach a compromise.
Only 15 percent of respondents see no room for compromise. They think that peace can only be attained if Russia loses and withdraws from all Ukrainian territories.
However, 74 percent expect a protracted war between Russia and Ukraine and only 22 percent believe the conflict is likely to end in the near future.
According to Hungarians, the world leaders do not promote peace
72 percent of the respondents believe that Vladimir Putin stands on the side of the war while it is 57 percent in the case of Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
In addition, 61 percent of the poll participants are of the opinion that Joe Biden is rather interested in continuing the Russo-Ukrainian war.
The only political leader on the side of peace
It is important to emphasize that, according to the poll, there is one politician that Hungarians think promotes peace.
According to 83 percent of Hungarians, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is in favour of peace which was objected to by only 12 percent of the respondents.
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Source: szazadveg.hu, liner.hu
Unfortunately, it seems (to me) that those surveyed by szazadveg are out of touch with reality outside of what they read/hear on State-controlled media.
One would expect that the majority only know what they know through PM Orban-controlled media – there is hardly any other left.
Would LOVE to see a little census on what foreigners make of our government. Mr. Orbán almost without exception comes up in any meeting with current or prospective inbound investors. Let’s say we are generally on the defensive and our best line is that the political situation is “stable and predictable”.
That it certainly is, i.e, “stable and predictable”.
Stable, as in, the current government not changing, and highly predictable in that the status quo will remain, i.e. V.O. staying in power. Only the uninformed might have dared to think the an opposition might come to power in Hungary.
I would not be surprised if Hungary’s constitution was tweaked a few more times during the life of this parliament, and a certain V.O. would become Head of State for life – à la Xi Jinping, or for that matter, even V.P. is looking like a certainty for that title.
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Totally agree. Only two months in and tweaks have started, not to mention the ‘state of emergency’ he has declared again. Fortunately some have the foresight to look at outside media sources rather than rely on the state media.
Saddam Hussain ‘won’ his landslide victory with 99.9% of votes, (yes, I know he was toppled and then executed), one of his followers even claimed he had more than 100% victory! Kim Jong Un ‘won’ 100% of his votes. Putin just gets rid of his opposition and declares victory before the votes are even counted, of course there are others…….. I do hope we aren’t going down this same road.
It would appear all VO’s election bribes have pretty much ruined this economy. We’ll all end up paying one way or another.