Hungarians love Putin more than Merkel

According to origo.hu, 42% of the respondents have a negative opinion about Angela Merkel – Nézőpont Institute reveals. US President Barack Obama is the most popular foreign politician in Hungary.

The public opinion of the German Chancellor is ambivalent in Hungary: while 39% of the Hungarians sympathize with her, 42% of them rather have a low opinion of her.

In addition to Merkel, Jean-Claude Juncker, leader of the European Commission is also a divisive person, but Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin both have seem to have a positive image, Nézőpont Institute wrote in their latest research, origo.hu told.

22% of the Hungarians have a positive, 23% of them have a negative opinion of Juncker, but one third of those surveyed did not even know him. In the case of the Russian president, 28% of the Hungarians do not sympathize with him, while nearly a half of them (46%) have a good opinion of him. However, Barack Obama is more popular: 59% of those surveyed liked him, and the ratio of the negative opinion is only 18% – the research institute revealed.

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