Voters against foreign campaign financing?

Sixty-one percent of respondents in a recent pro-government Nézőpont Institute survey said political parties should not be allowed to receive any financing for their campaigns from abroad, the pollster said on its website on Monday.

According to Nézőpont’s analysis, 60 percent of the respondents said campaign financing rules should be made more stringent.

It said that 78 percent of ruling Fidesz‘ supporters found “all forms of foreign financing unacceptable”. Forty-one percent of Left-leaning participants said parties should not receive funding from abroad, however, 52 percent of them “were rather indulgent, probably in defence of their preferred parties”, the survey showed.

What was the Government’s aim with the survey?

“Since it is not usual to amend election laws in the year before elections, the tightening of campaign financing promised by the governing parties should be tabled in the summer session of parliament before the 2024 European and local elections. It is clear that there is a social demand for this”

– stressed Nézőőpont, a think tank close to the governing party.

On this basis, another amendment to the electoral law with a 2/3 majority is expected.

Unfortunately, the survey also did not ask voters about the huge sums of money spent on campaigns financed by the Government, or about hidden domestic subsidies.

Nézőpont conducted its survey between May 30 and June 1, asking 1,000 voting-age adults by phone.

Source: MTI