Hungarians also don’t trust Putin much, but even more people think he can do the right thing in terms of global events than Zelensky. towards whom Hungarians’ distrust is universally palpable. If you had to choose between Russian natural gas or tougher action against Moscow, Hungarians choose energy sources from Europe more than anyone else.
Among others, this was done by American polling firm A From representative research conducted in 24 countries by the Pew Research CenterIt asked questions related to war in 24 countries.
Opinion of Russia is at a low point in many countries around the world, according to a survey released by Pew Monday afternoon: 82 percent of respondents in the countries surveyed have a negative opinion of Russia today. Don’t believe that Vladimir Putin is doing the right thing based on global events.
Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s opinion shows a more mixed picture: 51 percent of respondents in 24 countries have at least some confidence that the Ukrainian president is doing the right thing based on global events, while 39 percent of respondents do not. Or not much faith in Zelensky. There was a wide variation in the results: the opinion of the Ukrainian head of state is very positive in Europe, but there are also countries on the continent where they do not trust him.
Based on a survey conducted this spring, the Hungarian result stands out: only 11 percent of people in our country have some or definite trust in the Ukrainian president, which is the lowest value not only in Europe, but also in all surveyed countries.
Pew only publishes the results and doesn’t comment on them, but looking at the Hungarian data, one might assume it has something to do with the way the government uses its billion-HUF propaganda machine to attack the stricken country. War and its leader.
According to Pew’s survey, more people in Hungary think Putin is doing the right thing when it comes to world politics (19 percent), but distrust of the Russian president is also high here (50 percent of respondents don’t trust Putin; 29 percent don’t trust his decisions).
An interesting fact is that Putin’s opinion has deteriorated the most among so-called middle-income countries, where Pew last rated the opinion of the Russian president in 2019. Because Pew-commissioned researchers often conduct their research through personal inquiries, they had the opportunity to conduct the survey for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic, and to see that four years ago in Argentina, 51 percent of the population did it. Do not believe in the correctness of Putin’s decisions, now this ratio is 74 percent. The only exception is India, where the ratio of optimists to pessimists has increased (because of the preference not to answer), with more than half of people in India thinking Putin can still do the right thing.
Among the most influential international leaders, Hungarians still trust French President Emmanuel Macron the most, but only 30 percent of people trust him, so based on the results, it can be seen that Hungarian society does not trust the leader surveyed in the survey. The judgments of Putin and Joe Biden, who is somehow connected to the Russian-Ukrainian war, are quite similar.
In countries that receive Russian natural gas and/or crude oil, people were asked what was more important: a Russian invasion of Ukraine or being tough about access to Russian energy resources. The responses in the 11 countries surveyed show a mixed picture, but the Hungarian result stands out here as well: 76 percent of respondents thought that access to energy is more important than hard work. For Hungary, the Pew study highlights how strong the worldview factor is: 45 percent of respondents would identify themselves as left-wing and would choose more decisive action against the Russians, while only 10 percent of respondents identified themselves. The right thought so.
There is a large variation in the assessment of NATO among member states: while 93 percent of Poles support the military alliance, only 40 percent of Greeks, known as NATO skeptics, support it. In Hungary, more than half of respondents are pro-NATO (this is in line with recent domestic surveys), and in Sweden, which is waiting for the chance to join (and Hungary is also holding out), 78 percent support the organization. .
A comparison to Pew’s previous surveys shows that support for NATO in Hungary has declined by 7 percentage points since last year, but looking further back in time, 63 percent support in 2022 looks like an outlier. The last sample, before the pandemic, was 48 percent in 2019, for example the proportion of NATO supporters, previously (in 2009 and 2016) they measured 57 percent, which was practically the same as this year’s result.
The Pew’s methodology page reveals The representative research was conducted between March 8 and April 21 this year, with the participation of Gallup, interviewing 1,007 people through personal sampling.