Political Analyst

and recouping and planning for the future.

I haven't thought about that.

I don't know.

Why?

I don't think so.

Yeah, maybe.

Maybe that was that we didn't listen carefully.

But I also think that the economy is also, and the whole European Union is not so very much a good idea right now.

Yeah I mean it was surprising at first but if you look at the results the outcome of the election is so clear it's so humiliating for Fidesz to be honest

the gap is so huge between Tisza and Fidesz that really the Prime Minister had no other chance than to concede the election and to congratulate to Peter Magyar and I think he wanted to

get on with it and just like it was a very short speech I mean it was under four minutes if I'm not mistaken so it was an unusually short speech it was very interesting to see who stood behind the Prime Minister and who didn't most notably the Minister for Foreign Affairs Peter Siarto wasn't there next to the Prime Minister but I think What does that tell you?

I think partly it was it was his fault that the last weeks of the campaign, you know, there were a lot of leaked tapes.

Yeah, and I mean for undecided voters and I think even to not so committed Fidesz voters, it was a game changer to really hear our foreign minister talk to Lavrov and hear and finally have some proof of him collaborating with Lavrov and sharing EU documents with him.

So I think

I don't think it changed the outcome, but I think it was another step toward this huge TISA victory.

I think his campaign strategy was more clever than what we've seen from previous opposition leaders.

I think he was really focused and really committed and he really sticked to his own agenda which was basically

talking about economic issues, talking about public services, talking about the state of health care and so on.

He didn't talk about foreign policy, he didn't talk really about Europe or about Ukraine or about the war.

That's what the Prime Minister wanted to talk about.