They are the most popular Hungarian politicians

According to mno.hu, János Áder has lost the position of being the most popular Hungarian politician. Based on the newest survey of Iránytű Institute, the Minister of National Development, Mihály Varga managed to come before the President of Hungary. Viktor Orbán is only the 5^th on the list.

Mihály Varga received a sympathy index of 60 (out of 100), while this number is 58 in the case of János Áder. However, much more people know the president: 90% of the respondents knew who he was, but only 66% knew who Mihály Varga was.

This is a change compared to the past years, which were dominated by the president. The reason behind the decrease of his popularity are probably the divisive laws he said yes to in the past months. One of them was the law concerning the Central European University, while the other condemned civil organisations. Thousands of people went out to protest on the streets, János Áder was asked on several platforms to veto the initiations, but he didn’t raise objection. Meanwhile Mihály Varga stayed out of scandals and negative acts.

The majority of the supporters of Fidesz-KDNP think positively about János Áder, but not many oppositionist respondents gave him maximum points for sympathy.

The third most popular Hungarian politician is István Tarlós, the Mayor of Budapest. 60% of Fidesz supporters find him likeable, but there are also quite a few oppositionists that think the same. Only smaller leftist and liberal parties deprecate him completely.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán finished in the 5^th place, after EU Commissioner Tibor Navracsics, his sympathy index has been above 50 for several months. It’s not surprising that he is mostly favoured by the voters of Fidesz and KDNP: 60% of them gave him max points, while the supporters of leftist-liberal parties gave him the worst record. Moreover, 61% of MSZP voters, 45% of LMP voters and 40% of Jobbik voters think similarly about him.