Tisza leader Magyar announces new party appointments

On Monday, Tisza leader Péter Magyar announced officials’ appointments to run the party’s machinery, with a former sports retail manager taking over overall operations and an entrepreneur and non-profit leader in charge of the Tisza Islands grassroots network.

Gábor Posfai, a veteran of sports goods retailer Decathalon who has run the company’s Hungarian unit for seven years, will take over party operations from Márk Radnai, the party’s vice president, Magyar said in a statement on Monday.

Radnai will focus on building the political community and managing the party’s communications, as well as setting up platforms necessary for community-building, the statement said.

Meanwhile, businessman Dezső Farkas, one of the party’s founders, is returning to coordinate and manage the “ever-expanding, patriotic community of the Tisza Islands”. Magyar said that Farkas wanted to build a strong social network “that actively participates in shaping public life”. Farkas is a believer in digital and data-driven techniques and improving efficiencies, he said, adding that the Tisza Islands network would influence decision-making at a national level.

As we wrote in January, the lastest poll shows PM Orbán’s popular support has reached a historic low.