Andrew Anglin

Daily Stormer

April 7, 2014

Following the Le Pen big win, we have the Jobbik big win.

They are now the second largest party in the Hungarian parliament.

Reuters:

A twenty percent vote for the far-right opposition Jobbik party, accused of anti-Semitism, raised concern among ethnic minorities. That outcome will be noted also in other European Union countries expecting a rise in right-wing and anti-immigration parties at May European Parliament elections.

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That tally also gave Orban’s party the two-thirds majority needed for it to change the constitution, but only by one seat. Final results could still push Fidesz back below the threshold.

The same projection gave the Socialist-led leftist alliance 38 seats, while far-right Jobbik was on 23 seats.

International election observers said the election was, overall, transparently administered; but some factors gave undue advantage to the ruling party.

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Jobbik’s performance is being watched closely for clues about how other nationalist right-wing parties, such as France’s Front National and the Netherlands’ Party for Freedom, will perform in European Parliament elections next month.

In terms of its share of the national vote on party lists, Jobbik won 20.54 percent, up from 15.86 percent of all votes four years ago.

Its showing was the strongest of any far-right party in the EU in the past few years, according to Cas Mudde, Assistant Professor at the School for Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia in the United States.

He said the previous strongest result for a far-right group was the 20.5 percent won by Austria’s Freedom Party last year.

“There is no doubt that Jobbik will be among the strongest far-right parties in Europe, which is particularly striking because it is also one of the most extreme of Europe’s far-right parties,” Mudde told Reuters.



Jobbik has pledged to create jobs, be tough on crime, renegotiate state debt and hold a referendum on EU membership. While it denies being racist, it provides a lightning rod for suspicion among some Hungarians towards the Roma and Jews.

Hungarian Gypsy Party chairman Aladar Horvath ran with the promise of representing Hungary’s 700,000 Roma, but his party got less than 9,000 votes. He said Jobbik’s gains made it more difficult to end tensions between Roma and majority Hungarians.

“As Jobbik gains, Fidesz is forced to defend its voter base and act tougher, but that toughness closes doors on us,” Horvath told Reuters. “Stricter law enforcement and Spartan social policy make it harder for the Roma to break out of the ghettos.”