Analyses and research
Analyses and research
- 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 - End-of-year public opinion polls
- "2023 has not brought any earth-shattering changes in terms of party support." – This is how Republikon Institute’s December 2023 end-of-year review starts. Who would have thought then that within three months, the governing parties would lose their president and justice minister, opposition protests would be staged, some of them reaching hundre...
More - The choice of the new generation
- • Our analysis is based on a three-country youth research, in the framework of which the Republikon Institute, in cooperation with its Polish and Italian partners, investigated - among other things - the participation of young people in the 2024 European Parliament elections and in the election campaign, as well as in the the problems considered...
More - A Closer Look at Renew’s EP Election Results
- -The 2024 European Parliament elections brought along several changes in the composition of the EP. By the number of seats lost, Renew Europe was the biggest loser of the vote, while parties belonging to the political extreme right managed to increase their number of MEPs.-There are several differences between the composition of the Renew group ...
More - Economic liberalism, or lack thereof? - A study of public opinion on equality and state spending in Hungary
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In this study we present how these liberals think about the economy, to have a clear image of the economic side – or lack thereof – of Hungarian liberalism.
Hungarian liberals seem to not be liberal in the economic sense. Over half of them denounce capitalism as something that needs to be dismantled completely.
Hungarian liberals support govern...
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...
More - Fidesz and the Tisza go head to head
- The past summer was politically more eventful than usual. Hungary’s first double election shook the political status quo, while the Tisza Party was preoccupied with building a background organization that matched its political weight. Meanwhile, Hungary’s rotating EU presidency began, coinciding with a series of foreign and economic policy kamik...
More - 10 percent between Fidesz and Tisza
- The period ahead will be about, among other things, the transformation of the party system and planning for 2026. Two important questions arise in this context, one is who will represent the significant number of left-wing voters in 2026, and the other is whether Péter Magyar and the TISZA Party can organise themselves into a nationwide organisa...
More - After the low point in April, Fidesz-KDNP has slightly strengthened
- "After the amnesty case and Péter Magyar's burst into the scene, Fidesz-KDNP's support was at a low point not seen for years at the end of March. A couple of weeks later, they achieved an increase within the margin of error: among the total population, the government party's voter base increased by 2 percentage points (27%), and among party vote...
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