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 peripheral voters it had mobilised around the annual speech, but the real impact of the February announcements will only be felt once the subsidies are paid out. The four small and medium-sized parties, DK, Mi Hazánk, MKKP and Momentum, together have 22% of the votes of party voters, and if the 1% parties are counted, a quarter of party voters would not vote for the two big parties. Thus, it is far from being a mature two-party system, making it difficult for Tisza to claim to be the only challenger to Fidesz-KDNP.
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Tisza Party, Fidesz, Viktor Orbán, Péter Magyar, DK, momentum, Dog Party, Mi Hazánk, public opinion polls