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| Hungary elections: first step to power for far-Right since Nazi era |
| 2010-04-11 |
| Fidesz, Hungary's centre-right party, is expected to sweep out the unpopular Socialist government and Jobbik, a far-right party is predicted to take second place after Sunday's elections. Hungary's largest Jewish organisation warned that the vote was "the first occasion that a movement pursuing openly anti-Semitic policies" has taken a step to power since the Nazi era. Hungary's election gains for Jobbik follow a upsurge in support for the far-Right across Europe. Last month, French regional elections, dominated by debates over immigration, saw electoral revival for the National Front. In June, Dutch elections could propel Geert Wilders, whose anti-Islamic, hard-right Freedom Party leads the polls, into power. Amid rising unemployment, Hungary was the first European Union country to turn to the International Monetary Fund for an £18 billion bailout last year. Jobbik has risen by using Hungary's deep economic crisis to revive traditional Hungarian scape-goating of Jewish and gypsy, or Roma, communities for joblessness and poverty. It has close links with the Magyar Garda or Hungarian Guard, a banned paramilitary group with insignia modelled on the Arrow Cross of Hungary's wartime Nazis. Gabor Vona, Jobbik's 31-year old leader, has vowed to be sworn in as an MP wearing the banned uniform. "I will keep my promise to go into parliament on the first day in a Garda vest," he said. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 "journalism [is] completely uninterested in FTFY,tw. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-04-11 22:17 |
| #6 If I were the Jewish community Id be a bit more worried about the Left - they have become seriously anti-Jew while sucking up to Muslims in Europe. OldSpook, in Europe both the far right and the center to far left have traditions of Jew bashing, if not worse... and the Hungarians have revived this tradition with enthusiasm, as far as I can tell. This compares to Geert Wilder's party, which is strongly pro-Israel, while on other issues it ranges from center left to center right. It's just that the journalism profession regards anyone against any of their favourite causes to be by definition hard-right or far right or fascist, and they are completely uninterested in the nuances of reality. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-04-11 20:06 |
| #5 You forgot that the government can borrow to bribe. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-04-11 18:07 |
| #4 I expalin politics in a democracy as follows. There are 2 constituencies, those the government bribes to get their vote and those the government taxes to pay for the bribes. As goverments run out of money, as they are currently, they have to both decrease the bribes and increase the taxes to pay for the bribes. The result is a polarization of politics and the rise of so called far right parties and far left parties. Although, far left parties are never described as such by the MSM. |
| Posted by: phil_B 2010-04-11 17:43 |
| #3 "Fidesz, Hungary's centre-right party, is expected to sweep out the unpopular Socialist government and Jobbik, a far-right party is predicted to take second place after Sunday's elections." Poor punctuation and generally bad writing isn't helping either. My brain hurts. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2010-04-11 17:26 |
| #2 So Geert Wilders pro Gay, Pro Jewish, pro capitalist party is lumped in with Hungarian National socialists? I wonder why the MSM is dying? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-04-11 17:21 |
| #1 If I were the Jewish community Id be a bit more worried about the Left - they have become seriously anti-Jew while sucking up to Muslims in Europe. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-04-11 16:42 |