Ten years ago, on this day Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party won the elections after two terms in opposition. What followed is well documented. Here is a thread below about how Hungarians see these 10 years.

Full research summary https://www.policysolutions.hu/userfiles/elemzes/305/orban10_en_summary.pdf

The most popular measures of the Orbán government since 2010: family policies, migration, utility cost reduction. Family policies play a key role in increasing support for the government in rural Hungary 2/12

Migration is a winner among Fidesz voters, while utility cost reductions is considered as a more important achievement among opposition voters than among Fidesz supporters. 3/12

The greatest public policy failures of the last 10 years in Hungary: health care, social inequalities, vulnerability of employees. Poor climate policies come 5th, surprisingly high – it is clearly the result of the last year. 4/12

More people say that Hungary’s overall situation has worsened since 2010 (43%) than those who think it has improved (30%). 5/12

Hungarians see the most improvement in areas related to the economy: family subsidies, state of the economy & living standards received the most positive answers. In contrast, the worst certificates were issued to the human fields (health, education, social mobility) 6/12

The youngest (under-30) generation is the most critical about the performance of the Orbán government, while the oldest age group (over 60) rates the results of Viktor Orbán's last ten years the most positively. 7/12

Higher educated citizens typically view domestic political and social trends more negatively. People living in rural Hungary are somewhat more satisfied with the ten years of the Orbán government than people living in cities. 8/12

Despite the favorable macroeconomic indicators often emphasized by the Orbán government in recent years, more people feel that their own family's financial situation has worsened in the last ten years (38%) than those who report an improvement (26%). 9/12

According to the majority of the Hungarian society, the Orbán government favors the rich, and the majority is worse off than 10 years ago 10/12

There is a huge difference between the opinions of pro-government and opposition voters about the perception of Russian influence in Hungary. Opposition voters consider the country's growing dependence on Russia as problematic twice as much (40%) as Fidesz voters (20%) 11/12

There was already a serious lack of trust in the rule of law in Hungary before the “Enabling Act” was introduced in relation to the coronavirus pandemic. According to half of the Hungarian society, the state of democracy in Hungary has worsened in the last 10 years. END