Századvég: majority finds Orbán ‘strong leader’ keeping country safe

Most Hungarians regard Viktor Orbán as better suited to guaranteeing Hungarian security and warding off the negative economic effects of the conflict than Péter Márki-Zay, the united opposition’s prime ministerial candidate, according to the government-close think-tank Századvég.

Fully 66 percent of Hungarians consider Orbán the stronger leader on the security question, while 25 percent said the same of Péter Márki-Zay, in the March survey. Fully 65 percent and 27 percent responded respectively on the question of who was more likely to mitigate the economic effects of the conflict on Hungary. A similar proportion responded on the question of the government’s handling of the Russia-Ukraine war.

• Read also: United opposition wants to rescind special legal order in Hungary

Meanwhile, it seems that the government cannot put the protests of the Hungarian teachers to a halt. The PDSZ teacher union, which has formed a strike committee, on Wednesday called on the government to negotiate its demands concerning wages and workload.

The union wants the basic wage for teachers to match that of civil servants, while it calls for other employees working in the sector to receive no less than the minimum wage.