“What we can see is that everyone is now lining up behind the Tisza Party. There is a madman who defected from Fidesz, called Péter Magyar, whom these old SZDSZ, MSZP, left-wing, tried-and-tested crooks are trying to push in front of themselves as a kind of buffer layer — so that if the result doesn’t turn out the way they expect, they can hide behind him.
And every figure shows this, except for their own activist-operated polling institutes, which claim the Tisza Party is leading by 15 points, 20 points, or who knows how many points.
The reliable numbers clearly show that the governing parties are in the lead.
— Free Hungarians.”
This text attempts to construct a classic smear and relativization narrative against the Tisza Party and Péter Magyar.
The main messages, briefly:
- They claim that support behind the Tisza Party is not genuine, but artificially manufactured.
- They seek to discredit Péter Magyar personally, using extreme, stigmatizing labels (“mentally unstable,” “defector from Fidesz”) in order to present him not as a political alternative, but as a deviant figure.
- The Tisza Party is portrayed as being pushed forward by former SZDSZ, MSZP, and left-wing actors, used as a kind of “buffer layer.”
- The aim is to suggest that if the project fails, the blame can later be shifted onto these “old crooks,” rather than onto the governing system itself.
- Opinion polls are preemptively dismissed as manipulated, with the claim that only “activist polling institutes” show an advantage for Tisza.
- In contrast, by referring to so-called “reliable numbers,” they assert that the governing parties are actually in the lead, implying that every other narrative is a lie.
👉 Essentially:
They do not engage with programs or facts. Instead, they try in advance to delegitimize both the opponent and the data about them, while presenting their own position as “the only reality.”
This is a classic propaganda technique: personal attacks + scapegoating + delegitimizing statistics + the narrative of “we are the only rational voice