Jakab re-elected as Jobbik leader

Jobbik’s press office said Jakab received 71.4 percent of the votes, while his opponent, Janos Stummer, got 27.8 percent. Of the 245 ballots cast, 243 were valid, the statement said.

Delegates at the conference are also scheduled to elect deputy party leaders on Saturday.

Nezopont: Only Gyurcsany less popular than Jakab

Peter Jakab, on the cusp of re-election as the Jobbik party’s leader, has been outdone in the unpopularity stakes only by Ferenc Gyurcsany, the former Socialist prime minister who now leads the Democratic Coalition, according to a fresh survey by the Nezopont Institute.

Only 23 percent of active voters thought Jakab should fill a top post, the survey published on Saturday found. Asked the same question about Gyurcsany, only 10 percent would entrust him with a position of responsibility.

Nezopont said that Jobbik’s support base had also waned since the election four years ago, when 20 percent of voters backed the party. Now, Jobbik would only capture 3 percent of voters in an election held this Sunday, it added.

Meanwhile, Peter Marki-Zay, the former prime ministerial candidate of the united opposition who is the mayor of Hodmezovasarhely, and Anna Donath, the leader of Momentum, each captured 24 percent of active voters in Nezopont’s poll, though 70 percent would not entrust Marki-Zay with a position of authority, while 42 percent responded the same way when it came to Donath — whose name recognition is low, with 27 percent of active voters unsure who she was.

Among left-wing leaders, Gergely Karacsony, the mayor of Budapest, who is giving up his position as leader of the Parbeszed party, is the most popular (32 percent).

Nezopont conducted its representative survey of 1,000 adults by phone from April 25 to 27.