Analyses and research
Analyses and research
- January power relations are back
- The momentum of Péter Magyar and the Tisza Party has not been broken, for the time being it has been effective not to have reacted to the current moves of the governing parties. Indeed, Viktor Orbán has been more reactive, putting up a whole communication panel on the Péter Magyar-zebra affair. Fidesz-KDNP, meanwhile, failed to retain the periph...
More - Újpest votes
- A by-election is being held in Újpest on the 23rd of March. Campaigns for the by-election are the subject of Republikon's newest analysis. The main takeaways are as follows.
- The by-election in Budapest’s 11the single member constituency was necessitated by the resignation of László Varju, and in the absence of Tisza, he remains the frontrunne...
More - Political Landscape in Black and White
- The emergence of the Tisza Party has made the question of opposition change one of the most decisive issues in current Hungarian domestic politics. Of course, there is nothing new under the sun, in a sense that we were already talking about opposition change in 2021 in the context of primary elections, the outcome of which saw half of the opposi...
More - Campaign for Germany
- On February 23, this Sunday, the polls open in Germany for early elections following the break-up of the SPD-FDP-Green coalition, dubbed as the “traffic light” coalition after the parties’ colors, at the end of last year. As at the time of writing this analysis the polls have not yet taken place, we do not know the results, however, the election...
More - Evolution of voter values in Hungary
- The year 2024 reminded us how quickly the balance of power between parties can shift, even suddenly and unpredictably. The party preferences of Hungarian voters changed radically in 2024, with support for the governing parties falling sharply and the Tisza Party upending the opposition voter base. In contrast to party preferences, voters' values...
More - Opinions on Ukraine's EU-membership
- On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. In the three years since, much has changed in world politics, including the perception of the warring parties. These three difficult years have been a sad reminder of how deeply entrenched Russian influence has become in the Central and Eastern European region and the post-Soviet space. In Hungary in ...
More - Public opinion polls - February 2025
- February was a busy month in Hungarian politics. Annual state-of-the-nation addresses were given by Péter Magyar, Ferenc Gyurcsány and Viktor Orbán, among others. The prime minister announced a wave of promises that will necessitate a sum of up to thousands of billions of euros from the Hungarian budget. The parliamentary session has begun and s...
More - The wage of fear: Hungarians' future outlook and fears
- Fear-mongering is a potent political tool, perfectly suited to winning elections, but also to damaging the national psyche. The communication strategies and methodologies of the Hungarian governing parties have been studied by a range of political scientists; these can be considered the height of both fear-mongering and enemy creation. One of th...
More - Both Tisza and Fidesz got stronger, 5 parties would get into Parliament
- January used to be a favourite month for politicians and political pundits because, after a long year, "nothing ever happened" in politics this month. Politicians used to take their holidays before the parliamentary season and the Prime Minister's holiday in India would certainly not have been a curiosity, at most it would have compromised the i...
More - Tisza is in the lead, Mi Hazánk, DK and MKKP above parliamentary threshold
- This autumn, public opinion polls have drawn great attention. The primary reason for this is that for the first time in many years, a single party has managed to surpass the governing parties in popularity. Across the entire research market, it can be stated that the Tisza Party's disadvantage is at least diminishing, and in many cases, its popu...
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