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28th August, 2025
Poll finds huge support for direct election of president
Only 29% of Hungarians agree that, according to the current Fundamental Law, the Parliament elects the President of the Republic on the proposal of the Prime Minister, according to the latest survey by Median.
Some 5% did not want to/could not answer, but 66% believe that the president should be elected directly, through a referendum.
After Katalin Novak’s resignation, several opposition parties began to demand direct presidential elections and amendments to the Fundamental Law, and the Tisza Party also adopted this as its banner, so party sympathy is decisive on this issue.
Only 12% of Tisza supporters, 21% of voters of other opposition parties and those without a party preference are satisfied with the current indirect presidential elections, whereas 61% of Fidesz supporters are satisfied.
At the same time, one-third of Fidesz supporters would be happier if the head of state was elected directly.
The results are based on a survey of a representative sample of 1,000 eligible voters conducted June 3-6. The margin of error is 3.1%. (24.hu)
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28th August, 2025
Magyar demands that Orban father reveal his finances
Tisza Party leader Peter Magyar alleges in an open letter to Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s father, Gyozo, that the elder Oban’s declared income of recent years was not enough to finance the renovation and construction works at the Orban family’ estate in Hatvanpuszta.
Magyar said Orban’s father earlier claimed that he had financed the purchase of the 300-hectare property and the related 7,000m2 construction project from the income of his own company Dolomit.
However, Magyar writes that the construction works – including an underground garage, a children’s pool, a fence, and a solar cell park – could have cost Ft 15-20 billion, whereas the money available to Orban would have been Ft 5 billion.
Magyar asked Orban senior in the letter to reveal where the money came from, and, “if you really want to clear your son”, to make public all documents, contracts, invoices and disbursement of funds.
He closed his post with a severe warning, saying “if this does not happen, then in ten months, after a change of cabinet, the authorities will investigate every item, one by one, brick by brick”. (atv.hu; 10perc.hu; kontroll.hu; 444.hu; index.hu; nepszava.hu; 24.hu)
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28th August, 2025
Magyar Nemzet writer publishes book on Magyar titled The Traitor
Magyar Nemzet promoted on its front page a book written by Tamas Pilhal about Tisza party leader Peter Magyar named Arulo (“The Traitor”).
Magyar himself posted a copy of the cover in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
The text alongside the picture read: “If you did not happen to know what this base, corrupt ruling power spends our money on instead of developing hospitals, schools and railways and managing the livelihood crisis and what it concerns itself with, here is an example”.
Magyar claimed the book will be available from September in the LIbri bookstore chain.
Regarding the book’s author, Pilhal, Magyar said he is the person who likes to take photos from under the skirts of teenage girls, alluding to an event in 2019, when, as a staff member of Pesti Sracok, Pilhal published an article attempting to humiliate 19-year-old student activist Blanka Nagy. (nepszava.hu; 24.hu; hvg.hu)
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28th August, 2025
Professor alleges wrongful dismissal over LGBTQ study
Bulcsu Bognar, until recently an associate professor at the Peter Pazmany Catholic University, has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, claiming he was dismissed from his job because he wrote an essay on LGBTQ matters.
Bognar, a professor of Communication Science, was dismissed on June 20 after he produced a study of how the faithful relate to LGBTQ people.
Now, with the assistance of the civil liberties union TASZ, he is attempting to get a court to declare his dismissal null and void.
The university explained the dismissal as the result of a structural transformation but Bognar said this is just a pretext. He maintains that the university does not support those who concern themselves in their work with issues affecting the LGBTQ community.
Bognar was the only person affected by the “reorganization”, even though he was considered the most highly qualified lecturer at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies based on objective indicators, Nepszava writes. He had the most scientific publications and was ahead of his colleagues in the number of internationally recognized studies and citations. (nepszava.hu; szabadeuropa.hu; telex.hu)
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