This dropped to 26% by the end of November, representing an unprecedented loss of more than 900,000 potential voters, the poll, published in online portal hvg.hu, said. Fidesz saw an increase in popularity of the same size, the largest monthly increase ever, in 1992, the paper said.

The weakening of support for Fidesz has resulted mainly in an increase of respondents with no party preference, from 31% to 36% of all voters, and growing support for the opposition Socialists, from 8% to 12%.

Support for Jobbik also increased and returned to 15%, a level previously recorded during the spring, the poll showed. The proportion of those who said they would certainly cast their votes at an election increased to 52% from 41% two months earlier, the paper said.

Only every second Fidesz voter said they belonged in this group, it added. Less than half of Hungarians said that things were going in the wrong direction in October and this increased to 68% in November.

This view was even shared by every sixth Fidesz supporter.

At the same time, only 31% assessed the government’s work positively in November, as against 45% in October, hvg.hu said.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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