Over 60% of Hungarians do not believe Orbán's claims about alleged threat from Ukraine
A poll conducted in Hungary between 23 and 26 March showed that 62% of the country's residents consider Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's claims about Ukraine allegedly attempting to drag them into the war to be untrue, while 29% allow that this may be true.
Source: European Pravda, citing a Median poll commissioned by Political Capital, conducted between 23 and 26 March
Details: In response to the question of whether Ukraine is attempting, with the help of the EU and NATO, to drag Hungary into the war, a significant portion of the population (62%) rejected this assertion as "definitely false" or "probably untrue". 29% of voters allow that this may be true.
Notably, supporters of the opposition and the ruling party hold diametrically opposed views. 92% of supporters of the opposition Tisza party disagree with the claim that Ukraine is trying to drag Hungary into the war.
By contrast, 78% of voters for Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party believe this claim to some extent, with 67% of them considering it definitively true.
Among undecided voters, 54% consider the claim definitively or probably untrue, while 23% consider it definitively or probably true.
The poll was conducted by telephone among a sample of 1,000 people aged 18 and over, representative of the country's population.
Why this matters: Throughout the years of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Viktor Orbán has regularly accused Kyiv of attempting to drag Hungary into the war.
Orbán has explicitly asked Hungarians to vote for his party so that Hungary would not end up being drawn into the war.
He has also repeatedly claimed that the West is one step away from deploying troops to Ukraine but has stated that he will not allow Budapest to be drawn into this.
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