I was planning to write a short note on this for a while now. Well, I guess it was about time.
A "reallocation of voters" happened in Hungarian politics, and it feels I've seen this already a couple of times.
This year a new political party emerged with astonishing tempo and collected most of the opposition voters in half a year, from January 1st till the EU parliamentary and Hungarian municipality elections. This is the TISZA Párt, with its frontman, Magyar Péter.
TISZA is an acronym, Tisztelet és Szabadság, means Respect and Freedom. Also Tisza is the Tisa river, so it's an okay wordplay, easy to remember. I bet most people don't know the actual name of the party.
Before the start of this year, noone heard about the party and Magyar Péter, they had nothing to do with each other either. TISZA Párt was a dwarf party in the countryside, founding members toyed with the idea to run in the 2022 parliamentary elections but they did not. Magyar Péter is a lawyer, and was the husband of a the Minister of Justice who got into a legal scandal, putting her into many not too flattering articles.
Interesting is, that both the party and Magyar has conservative background, and their program and ideas has conservative elements, but perhaps most correctly takes motifs from everywhere from the political palette - since it is there to collect those voters who got enough of the incompetent opposition, and want to leave behind the ex-PM Gyurcsány, who hangs onto politics like if his life depended on it.
Previously the various opposition parties tried to create some alliance but they failed to bring results in constantly (except perhaps the office of the lord mayor of Budapest), and everyone was alienated by Gyurcsány (and the Fidesz propaganda citing Gyurcsány all the time).
Now this new formation took the wind out of the sails of this alliance, deflating them all.