The latest survey by think tank Medián showed on Tuesday that Hungarians have become less supportive of the no-work Sunday regulation, local news portal index.hu reported.
Péter Balla, an ordinary Hungarian citizen, decided in January this year that if the government had failed to assess what economic impacts the Sunday shopping ban would have and whether Hungarians actually supported this measure, he will find out himself. The law on the Sunday closure of retail stores came into effect on 15 March (effectively on 22 March, as 15 March is a national holiday).
Balla - without support by any political party - has launched an online campaign to raise enough money (EUR 1,300) to order surveys from the three largest pollsters in the country, Ipsos, Medián and Tárki.
People were asked whether they were in favour or against stores having the opportunity of opening on Sunday too.
Ipsos found in early March that 64% of the respondents were in favour; Medián’s end-March result was 62% against the no-work Sunday and Tárki’s in favour reading in mid-April was 59%, Medián said in a statement today.
Read more about the surveys and the results by clicking on the link below.
In a Medián survey conducted at the end of May, 72% of the 1,200 respondents said stores should be open on Sunday, which means that those against this restriction are clearly in majority in every social group, including those classified according to party affiliations.
Oddly enough, it was the opinion of the supporters of the ruling Fidesz party that changed the most since March. While in the first spring month a minority of them (45%) was against stores being closed on Sunday, almost two thirds of them were of the same view by the end of May.
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