Hungary's opposition: A nasty party

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http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13871359

The centre-right frets over the rise of the far right



VIKTOR ORBAN, leader of Hungary’s centre-right Fidesz party, should be celebrating. His party has just won 14 of Hungary’s 22 seats in the European Parliament. The ruling Socialists, stricken by scandal and economic crisis, took only four. But Mr Orban is worried. For the other big winner was the far-right Jobbik party, with 427,000 votes and three seats. Supported both by far-right voters and by disgruntled ex-socialists (Taking several Euro seats themselves), Jobbik is the big new thing in Hungarian politics.

The party did best in the country’s rundown, often jobless eastern regions, where it played on growing fears of crime, which it linked to the Roma (Gypsy) minority. Jobbik denies anti-Roma racism; it says it is just against gypsy criminals. But the badges, black trousers and heavy boots of its uniformed wing, the Magyar Garda (Hungarian Guard), which marches in formation against Roma wrongdoers, evoke unhappy memories of Hungary’s past.

Jobbik’s public face is Krisztina Morvai, a blonde, telegenic law professor, noted for both her forthright feminism and her vituperative attacks on Israel. A message posted under her name on an internet forum demanded that Hungarian Jews should play with their “tiny circumcised tails” instead of attacking her. Ms Morvai declines to discuss the matter. Jobbik says it will not comment on private correspondence.

[imdjh]

1. Is it just me or this almost caricature?

I realize that these people are serious, and possibly dangerous, but my extra little brain (the one that talks to the main brain sometimes) is asking, "Are they fucking serious? Do they not know how ridiculous this looks?" I really don't know how to put this in words that don't sound shallow and stupid- Nazi crap went out in the 1940's. Grow up.

[drchoice22]

2. You'd think so but it doesn't help

When the President was caught on recording saying the election was a sham and that Hungary is there for the taking (by him and other elitists).