Government-close pollster says Péter Magyar is losing popular support

The governing parties have a comfortable lead, while more and more potential voters have been put off by Peter Magyar’s opposition Tisza Party over the past month, according to a Századvég December poll.

Among those who are certain or likely to vote, the Fidesz-Christian Democrat alliance had 40 percent support, followed by Tisza with 31 percent, the think-tank said on Friday.

The Two-Tailed Dog Party was in third place with 7 percent, while Our Homeland Movement was on 6 percent.

The Democratic Coalition, Momentum and Socialists were below the 5 percent threshold for entering parliament, while 7 percent were undecided.

Among decided voters, the Fidesz-led alliance had 42 percent support, while Tisza had 34 percent. The two parties definitely in contention for seats in parliament were on 7 percent, while 5 percent would vote for the Democratic Coalition (Momentum and Socialists have 3 and 1 percent support, respectively).

Szazadvég said that Magyar’s standing had worsened due to incidents involving the politician and the ensuring negative press coverage in recent weeks, and he personally had a negative approval rating of minus 12 percent in November, while this fell to minus 18 percent the following month.

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