The party of Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban enjoys just 17 percent of popular support, after inching up a single percentage point since July. A recent poll of Hungarians showed that its main rival the Socialists is treading water at 14 percent, while the nationalist party Jobbik, which was forced to oust one of its rising anti-Semitic stars when it emerged that he was Jewish, slipped into single digit territory at 8 percent. FIDESZ polls much better when the target group is Hungarians who intend to vote, and commands two-thirds of the votes in Parliament. This most recent poll found that 53 percent of all Hungarians have no preference in terms of political parties.
