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According to a recent survey, 70 percent of respondents believe that the Hungarian government’s measures to mitigate the effects of the epidemic do not protect or do not protect workers. In the case of the pension subsidy that expires only in 2021, even the majority of Fidesz-KDNP voters are not behind the government, 41 percent say the benefit will be due this year and 23 percent question the need for the subsidy.
The IDEA Institute from April 20 to 26. In its 2000-sample quota survey, it examined, among other things, the government’s action plan for economic protection announced in several steps.
How about the employees?
70 percent of all respondents believe that government measures do not protect or do not protect Hungarian workers (50 percent). Conversely, a fifth assumes that the measures provide full or more protection for the economically active. Although not an easy question, the proportion of insecure people is low (9 percent). The answer to the question largely depends on who’s partying, whether they see the world through pro-government or opposition lenses. While the absolute majority of Fidesz-KDNP voters, 55%, say government decisions provide sufficient protection, the proportion of opposition voters is only 5%. Interestingly, though, nearly a third of government parties view government decisions less positively, and an additional 13 percent are unsure on the subject, IDEA wrote of the research results.
Opposition party voters are even more critical than usual when 92 percent of them say the decisions no longer provide or protect workers. They are unsure about their party affiliation and those who deny their preference are also dissatisfied with the measures in the government’s economic protection action plan that affect workers: 60 percent say it provides protection for workers and another 22 for percent say it provides less protection to workers. Rarely is there an outcome in which those with uncertain preferences that would otherwise be difficult to navigate in political life choose the “don’t know, don’t respond” category at a lower rate than the pro-government voters they always trust, the pollster says. a statement.
Should retirees receive support?
Another question asked how much the population agrees with the government’s promise that pensioners will receive more than a quota of pension benefits from 2021 to help alleviate the coronavirus epidemic (this is a 4-year reversal of the 13-month pension). Eleven percent of the total population agrees that retirees should not receive support to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus epidemic until 2021, but 61 percent believe that additional support for pensions would be justified as early as 2020. And about a fifth of the total population sees no additional support.
In recent years, there have been few political issues in which pro-government voters have not fully lined up behind any government decision. The pension subsidy now announced, but it will be paid in only 4 installments and will expire only in 2021, it is such a case. Only less than a quarter of Fidesz-KDNP voters agree that retirees should receive additional support in 2021, 41 percent say the benefit will be due this year, and 23 percent unusually directly question the need for support for.
4 percent of supporters of opposition parties fully agreed with the government’s decision, while 72 percent would introduce pension subsidies as early as this year. Unusually, opposition voters who question the legitimacy of pension support are fewer (21%) than pro-government dissidents. The opinion of those with unknown preferences differs significantly from that of the opposition in one respect, with a higher proportion of those who are unsure (10 percent).
What did the retirees respond to?
Given that it’s about supporting a privileged social group, IDEA says that opinions by economic activity are also worth seeing. According to the data, the retirement community in question is not entirely satisfied with the government’s decision to add only in 2021. 84 percent of them say the payment would already be justified in 2020, and the proportion of those who think that the supplement is not justified is practically insignificant.
There is social solidarity among active workers, as more than half would already pay the additional amount this year, while a quarter discuss the need to do so. At the same time, intergenerational solidarity is less noticeable. More than half of students (i.e. youth) do not see the need for additional pension support, and 16 percent agree that support to alleviate the coronavirus epidemic should not start until 2021.
There are two Hungary
In general, the Orbán government’s epidemic management measures are judged by political preference: Fidesz-KDNP voters rate it very well and opponents rate it very poorly. 55 percent of the total population is more critical, 17 percent give a triple rating, while 24 percent rate it as good or remarkable. By contrast, 65 percent of government parties choose a value of four (4 percent) or five (41 percent), but it has 16 percent in its critical circle. Opposition views are more homogeneous, with 81 percent rated the government response to the coronavirus epidemic a maximum of two, with 5 percent holding a good or excellent opinion.
Regarding party preference, 65 percent of those who are insecure or refuse to respond are more dissatisfied, 19 percent rate government activities as moderate, while 8 percent are satisfied with that.
Overall, the results confirm the feature described by several social researchers that there are at least two Hungary and that the coronavirus epidemic has failed to create the coveted national unit, IDEA said.
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