Nezopont: Fidesz widens lead, Tisza falls in poll
According to a poll conducted at the time of the flood protection efforts in Hungary, the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrats increased their lead while the popularity of the opposition Tisza party fell, the Nezopont Institute said on Wednesday.
Compared with data from the week before the floods, Fidesz’s support grew by 2 percentage points to 47 percent, Nezopont said, attributing the increase to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s daily presence at the dams.
Meanwhile, the opposition Tisza party’s support fell by 2 percentage points to 33 percent, Nezopont said.
Besides those two parties, another two cleared the parliamentary threshold, Nezopont said. The Democratic Coalition-Socialists-Parbeszed was up 2 percentage points at 8 percent, and radical Mi Hazank’s (Our Homeland) support grew by 1 percentage point to 6 percent, the pollster said.
Nezopont conducted the phone poll with a representative sample of 1,000 decided voters between September 16 and 18.
