BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling Fidesz party has a two percentage point lead over an opposition alliance in a late March survey ahead of the April 3 election.
The poll, conducted by pollster Zavecz Research between March 23 and 25 and published by website Telex.hu on Monday, put support for nationalist Orban’s Fidesz at 41% of the electorate, while the opposition alliance stood at 39%.
Both the governing party and the opposition gained 3 percentage points since Zavecz’s previous survey in February while the share of undecided voters fell.
Orban faces a united, six-party opposition front for the first time since taking office in a 2010 election landslide.
The opposition alliance includes the Democratic Coalition, the Socialists, liberals and the formerly far-right, now centre-right, Jobbik. Its candidate for prime minister is Peter Marki-Zay, an independent who is currently mayor of Hodmezovasarhely, a town in southern Hungary.
Zavecz said that their research suggests that turnout will be high at the election, possibly reaching as much as 80%.
DATE AGENCY FIDESZ OPPOSITION UNDECIDED
March 23-25
Zavecz 39 16
41
March 16-18 Republikon 41 39 16
March 2-11 IDEA 40 37 11
Feb 18-24 Republikon 40 39 16
Feb 22-26 Median 39 32 20
Jan 31-Feb 9 IDEA 38 34 13
Feb 2-10
Zavecz 36 20
38
Jan 20-25 Republikon 36 34 22
Jan 4-14 IDEA 39 37 10
Dec 4-7 Median 39 34 13
Dec 9-14 Republikon 33 36 24
Nov 2-12 Zavecz 37 41 14
Nov 2-3 Nezopont 56 42 2
Oct 25-29 Republikon 32 38 30
Oct 11-19 Zavecz 35 39 23
Sept 29-Oct 4 Median 37 37 17
Oct Szazadveg 50 44 6
Sept Zavecz 37 38 23
Sept 20-21 Nezopont 53 45 N/A
Aug 23-25 Nezopont 52 46 N/A
(Reporting by Anita Komuves; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
