Senior Analyst: Digital Civic Circles Prove Life Exists Beyond Budapest

Hungary's political landscape continues to be divided along two worldviews: the national conservative camp and the leftist-liberal camp differ sharply in how they view the country as a whole, pointed out Bank Levente Boros, Director of Political Analysis at the Nezopont Institute. While the leftist-liberal side has, since the change of regime, typically represented a Budapest-focused way of thinking, for the national side rural areas are just as important parts of Hungary as the capital.

Anti war rally in Szombathely (Photo: Hungarian PM's General Department of Communication/Akos Kaiser)

The analyst believes that during campaigns, the atmosphere of events can be decisive.

People are looking for security and predictability. With the governing parties, they know what to expect when it comes to war, migration, or the representation of Hungarian interests. This certainty, based on experience, is also reflected in the atmosphere of the events,

he emphasized. By contrast, in his view, the politics of the Tisza Party and Peter Magyar are built primarily on negative messages, which do not provide an answer as to what kind of future they would offer the country.

Cover photo: Anti war rally in Szombathely (Photo: Hungarian PM's General Department of Communication/Akos Kaiser)