• Bajnai’s job Approval: 2.57/5
    Hungary|26/02/2010

    Bajnai’s job Approval: 2.57/5

    PM Bajnai’s job approval - Although PM Bajnai was less divisive than his predecessor, Mr Gyurcsány, his job approval, based on a 1-5 scale where 1 is the worst and 5 is the best, the outgoing PM scored a mere 2.57.

  • Hungary|05/02/2010

    Fidesz: Two-thirds Majority Possible

    Who should be the Prime Minister? - Fidesz chairman Viktor Orbán is still the most popular of the candidates with 41 per cent of the total electorate naming him as their choice of Hungary’s next Prime Minister.

  • Hungary|17/12/2009

    MSZP: From Gyurcsány to Mesterházy

    On former PM Gyurcsány’s return - Though he made a real political comeback by being offered fourth position on MSZP’s national election list, the voters seem little keen on seeing him in “top position” before the elections.

  • Hungary|26/11/2009

    Dirty linen

    The degree to which a married couple, the Lakoses, have been dominating the decision-making and executive bodies of the capital is skirting on the edge of incompatibility. While the SZDSZ-member husband is responsible for the urban management of Budapest, his lawyer wife lends him her assistance in megaprojects. The question now arises: is the local government, represented by Mrs Lakos, deliberately losing in a law suit with billions at stake against the private contractors of the sewage clarifying plant in Csepel?

  • Hungary|26/11/2009

    Chances of prime minister candidates

    Who will be the candidates for PM? - Some 150 days ahead of the second round of next year’s general elections, the parties are preparing to announce their PM candidates.

  • Hungary|19/11/2009

    Held to account

    A criminal procedure was initiated against one of the leaders and major promoters of scientology, Zsolt Fazekas. He is charged with tax fraud. If sentenced, the owner of the Euronics chain store might even end up in prison.

  • Hungary|12/11/2009

    The Omninvest dossier

    Has the secret of the Hungarian vaccine been acquired by foreigners or are Hungarian businessmen hiding behind the Cypriot company that owns Omninvest Ltd? Having studied the dossiers of the Omninvest group, Heti Válasz thinks the latter is more likely. In the meantime, hundreds of thousands of families have had to decide whether or not to have their children vaccinated.

  • Hungary|05/11/2009

    The witness

    At court next week, Ferenc Gyurcsány will need to refute a statement that he knew about the dubious dealings of János Zuschlag. The former prime minister will have the opportunity to discuss the period when he - in order to win power - struck a deal with young socialists who regarded the ministry of sports as their own territory.

  • Hungary|05/11/2009

    Berlin Wall

    Gorbachev and the Poles were some of those who helped to pull down the Berlin Wall. Miklós Németh was the only other leader of the former socialist countries to have been invited to the ceremony held on the twentieth anniversary of its fall . Heti Válasz asked the former prime minister to reminisce about the past.

  • Hungary|29/10/2009

    Six More Months - Opinion Poll for Heti Válasz

    Bajnai's rating - Though the PM's approval ratings are higher than in April, now at 34 per cent, the majority of the electorate still thinks he is incapable of managing the crisis (54 per cent). In addition to this, of the 34 per cent who think the PM is the appropriate crisis-manager, only 71 per cent believe him to be a trustworthy decision maker, which means that only 23 per cent of the total electorate deem him trustworthy and capable of leading Hungary out of the crisis.

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