{"id":1409122,"date":"2022-03-30T07:14:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T11:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1409122"},"modified":"2022-03-30T07:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T11:15:03","slug":"orbans-ruling-fidesz-keeps-lead-over-opposition-as-election-nears-surveys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/orbans-ruling-fidesz-keeps-lead-over-opposition-as-election-nears-surveys\/","title":{"rendered":"Orban\u2019s ruling Fidesz keeps lead over opposition as election nears -surveys"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Forbans-ruling-fidesz-keeps-lead-over-opposition-as-election-nears-surveys%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1409122&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-30T094008Z_1_LYNXNPEI2T0GI_RTROPTP_0_HUNGARY-ELECTION-ORBAN_1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Hungarian PM Orban delivers his annual speech in Budapest\" \/><br \/>FILE PHOTO: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban gestures as he delivers his annual state of the nation speech in Budapest, Hungary, February 12, 2022. Slogan reads &#8220;Let&#8217;s go forwards, not backwards!&#8221;. REUTERS\/Bernadett Szabo\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 30, 2022<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) \u2013     Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban\u2019s ruling Fidesz party has  maintained its lead over an opposition alliance as a national election nears, according to latest opinion polls.<\/p>\n<p>A Median poll, conducted in late March and published by website Hvg.hu on Wednesday, put support for the nationalist Fidesz ahead of the April 3 election at 40%, up from 39% in Median\u2019s late February survey.<\/p>\n<p>The six-party opposition alliance stood at 32%, with about 20% of voters still undecided.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate survey by pollster Zavecz Research conducted between March 21 and 27 and published late on Tuesday, Fidesz had 39% support and the opposition alliance 36%. Among decided voters, Fidesz had 50% while the opposition stood at 46%, Zavecz said, predicting a close race.<\/p>\n<p>Orban faces a united opposition for the first time since taking office in a 2010 election landslide. Its candidate for prime minister is Peter Marki-Zay, an independent who is currently mayor of Hodmezovasarhely, a town in southern Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>Median said that among Fidesz voters, 37% believed Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine was unjustified, while 43% said it was justified. Over the entire electorate, the respective percentages were 55% and 28%.<\/p>\n<p>Orban has condemned Russia\u2019s attack but avoided personal criticism of President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>He has also refused to allow the delivery of arms to Ukraine via Hungary and is strongly opposed to sanctions on Russian energy, saying that would wreck a domestic economy reliant on Russian gas and oil.<\/p>\n<p>           DATE           AGENCY      FIDESZ  OPPOSITION  UNDECIDED          <\/p>\n<p>           Late March     Median      40      32          20          <\/p>\n<p>           March 21-27    Zavecz      39      36          19          <\/p>\n<p>           March 23-25    Zavecz          41          39         16          <\/p>\n<p>           March 16-18    Republikon      41          39         16          <\/p>\n<p>           March 2-11     IDEA            40          37         11          <\/p>\n<p>           Feb 18-24      Republikon      40          39         16          <\/p>\n<p>           Feb 22-26      Median          39          32         20          <\/p>\n<p>           Jan 31-Feb 9   IDEA            38          34         13          <\/p>\n<p>           Feb 2-10       Zavecz          38          36         20          <\/p>\n<p>           Jan 20-25      Republikon      36          34         22          <\/p>\n<p>           Jan 4-14       IDEA            39          37         10          <\/p>\n<p>           Dec 4-7        Median          39          34         13          <\/p>\n<p>           Dec 9-14       Republikon      33          36         24          <\/p>\n<p>           Nov 2-12       Zavecz          37          41         14          <\/p>\n<p>           Nov 2-3        Nezopont        56          42          2          <\/p>\n<p>           Oct 25-29      Republikon      32          38         30          <\/p>\n<p>           Oct 11-19      Zavecz          35          39         23          <\/p>\n<p>           Sept 29-Oct 4  Median          37          37         17          <\/p>\n<p>           Oct            Szazadveg       50          44          6          <\/p>\n<p>           Sept           Zavecz          37          38         23          <\/p>\n<p>           Sept 20-21     Nezopont        53          45        N\/A          <\/p>\n<p>           Aug 23-25      Nezopont        52          46        N\/A          <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Anita Komuves and Krisztina Than; editing by John Stonestreet)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban gestures as he delivers his annual state of the nation speech in Budapest, Hungary, February 12, 2022. 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