In Hungary, politics may also be a missing profession.

Below is a partial list of the most in-demand jobs, but one profession that has emerged in the last 30 years is missing.

Politicians are not in demand, and the ranks of the parties, especially the ruling party, have seen a drastic decline in the number of people whom the Prime Minister could previously hold up as examples to both his party members and the public, refuting the claim that Fidesz lacks well-educated, multi-graduate and multilingual leaders.

In the recent months of social unrest, about which we wrote here, the head of state and the former Minister of Justice, who was the leader of the European Parliament election list, were forced to resign.

Both politicians ideally showed the success of Fidesz’s family policy to outsiders: women with multiple children, married, graduated, multilingual, with a serious political career.

The fact that the positions of the suddenly lost female politicians have not been filled shows that the Prime Minister was not prepared for a quick replacement and is unable to field female politicians of similar commitment and quality to replace the departed ones.

The shortage of politicians is also indicated by the fact that the vacant position on the Constitutional Court was offered to the former Minister of Justice, who also had a Brussels career, but the lawyer-professor in question chose to head the Reformed Law University instead.

The shortage of politicians is also characteristic of those parties that do not have a government mandate.

In the case of the six or eight known parties, the same faces have been visible for many years, even decades, they do not have a real significant membership, and they are not present in public life between elections.

Due to the rules of the electoral system, many people only entered Parliament or local governments on party lists, and have never won an individual mandate.

Recent events suggest that voters are increasingly unwilling to vote for candidates nominated by the old parties. This is reinforced by the decision of several successful Budapest district mayors to run as candidates of local civic associations in the upcoming elections and to distance themselves from the parties that have supported them so far.

In the meantime, the parties that are talking about a change of government are trying to establish a hierarchy among themselves and do not even say what answers they would give to real problems if they came to power.

The outcome of the upcoming European Parliament and local elections could be shocking for the participating parties if the majority of voters vote for independent candidates or for candidates of parties that have not been in government for a few years.