Peter Magyar such an interesting politician in many way. He considers himself a "conservative-liberal" and he is a leader of bit tent centrist pro-EU, pro-NATO party. Since defeating Orban, he keeps destroying the Orban system. So he is definitely not a "do nothing" politician. At the same time, he is incredibly popular among young people. People who don't live in Hungary wouldn't believe it, but he is like a rock star in Hungary, young girls are screaming when he appears and they are doing edits about him on TikTok. He often acts in a very "anti-politican" way, including being at the DJ at his inauguration. At the same time, he tends to avoid the so called "culture war issues", he ususally says "there will be a referendum" when they ask him about some traditional right-left social issues.
Magyar defeated far-right populism. His critics say he is a different type of populist while others say he found a way to use general anti-elitist sentiments to take down culture war based populism as a moderate.
Do you think Peter Magyar's style of communication can be the future of politics?
Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Young_people_-_digital_world
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that map shows hungary in the top bracket but still under half of young people, so the rock star thing is doing some heavy lifting