Analyses and research
Analyses and research
- Waving goodbye to September with a new party support report
- At the end of September, the Tisza Party is ahead of Fidesz-KDNP by 5 percentage points among the entire population, the score is 30-25. Péter Magyar’s party leads by 6 percentage points among party voters and by 7 percentage points among decided voters, after gaining momentum within the margin of error. Among party voters the score is 41-35 in ...
More - Connecting Personal Agency, Autonomy, and Subjective Well-Being
- Subjective well-being (SWB), defined as individuals' self-reported assessment of their own life satisfaction and happiness, has become a focal point in contemporary social sciences. Understanding the factors that contribute to well-being is critical not only for academic research but also for policymakers seeking to enhance quality of life at th...
More - 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 - Party support in October
- In October, the Tisza Party is ahead of Fidesz-KDNP by 6 percentage points among the entire population, 30 percent would vote for Péter Magyar’s party. TISZA has gained 2 percentage points among the party voters, resulting in an 8-percentage-point lead over the current government parties, making the score 43-35. 44 percent of the decided voters ...
More - One year of public media II.
- Democratic control, transparency, and impartiality in the operation of public service media are key to a free public sphere and informed decision-making by voters. The joint monitoring report by the Republikon Institute and Connect Europe, which is the first half-yearly report of a one-year project, for the period February-July 2025, attempts to...
More - Party preferences - August
- In August, the balance of power between the parties changed within the margin of error. The Tisza Party leads over Fidesz-KDNP by 4 percentage points among the total population, by 5 percentage points among party voters, and by 6 percentage points among committed party voters. The score is 30-26 among the total population, 39-34 among party vote...
More - Debtor, pay!
- An appropriate tax policy is a fundamental requirement for the functioning of any country. This is how the state generates the resources necessary for its operation, and although the government would like to manage as many resources as possible, it is equally important that citizens have money to spend or that the economy is strengthened through...
More - Party preferences - end of July
- As of the end of July, the support levels of the governing Fidesz-KDNP and the opposition Tisza Party, have remained relatively stable, with only minor changes within the margin of error. Tisza is currently 5 percentage points ahead of FideszKDNP in the general population, with 30% support among all respondents, compared to only 25% for Fidesz-K...
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