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 so has the delivery of these political promises. After a year, the government has taken back the political initiative from Péter Magyar in two grotesque moves. On the one hand, the government has taken the intimidation and disabling of the civil sector to an extreme, and has dusted down the homophobic communication panel it rejected at the beginning of 2022, when the Russian-Ukrainian war had broken out: it would ban the Pride parade, an action that would violate the right of assembly and would presumably be unconstitutional. At the same time, Fidesz-KDNP has also begun a public alliance with Mi Hazánk, who support both outrageous moves. World politics has also been thrown into turmoil with the inauguration of US President Trump, with Russia and the US negotiating the future of Europe without involving Europe, while Trump envisages a luxury paradise in the Gaza Strip. Hungarian politics, or more precisely the frenzy of the governing parties, is also part of the political vortex created by the US, the closest link at the moment, apart from pro-Russian war communications, being the 'USAID scandal', including the money coming into Hungary which has supported hundreds of independent organisations during the existence of USAID. It is in this context that Republikon’s February party preference survey was conducted.
The entire survey is available in English on this link.
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