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6/7/12

Hungary government party support lowest in over a decade – poll

Public support for Hungary’s ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrat party alliance sank to its lowest in more than a decade last month, a Median survey that also highlighted public gloom about the economy showed on Thursday.

But even with 22 percent backing, four points below its showing in Median’s poll in March, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s conservative Fidesz-KDNP alliance remained the most popular political force in Hungary, the survey published in the weekly HVG showed.

Orban, whose own approval rating sank to 30 percent in May, the lowest ever recorded by the pollster, is seeking a multi-billion euro backstop from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union to stabilise Hungary’s indebted economy.

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