Poll: Orban more popular PM candidate than Budapest mayor

The majority, 54 percent of Hungarian adults wants Prime Minister Viktor Orban to remain in his post, while 34 percent supports Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony, who is in the run to become the opposition's prime ministerial candidate, a survey conducted by the Szazadveg Foundation showed. The survey was conducted at the end of August over the phone, on a 1,000-strong representative sample, after analysts saw Karacsony as the likely winner of the opposition's pre-election, Szazadveg said.