Posted on 04/05/2014 3:10:46 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Hungary’s governing party is tipped to win parliamentary elections Sunday, while a far-right party is expected to make further gains, according to polls.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party and its small ally, the Christian Democrats, are expected to win easily and they may even retain the two-thirds majority in the legislature gained in 2010 which allowed them to pass a new constitution, adopt unconventional economic policies, centralize power and grow the state’s influence at the expense of the private sector.
Polls predict Fidesz will win around 45-50 percent of the votes, with a close race for second between a coalition of five left-wing groups led by Attila Mesterhazy and the Socialist Party—seen getting 25 percent—and the surging far-right Jobbik party, which could receive up to 20 percent. […]
Fidesz has defended companies owned by government cronies which have reaped generous state contracts and the two-thirds majority has given Orban a free hand and an iron fist to place close allies at institutions which oversee everything from Hungary’s media to its judicial system. …
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As usual, the AP has it wrong.
Fidesz has cut dependence on government and resisted close ties to the European Union rather than on Hungarian companies, banks, etc.
But, Fidesz’s most egregious action was protecting the unborn in Hungary’s new constitution. Liberal Western Europe cannot tolerate this, so they are in full attack mode to destroy Fidesz and paint them as monsters.
Is Fidesz all good? No, of course not.
But, at least they are trying to move away from socialism rather than toward it.
"Fidesz has defended companies owned by government cronies which have reaped generous state contracts and the two-thirds majority has given Orban a free hand and an iron fist to place close allies at institutions which oversee everything from Hungary’s media to its judicial system.
characterizing Fidesz in this fashion feeds into Jobbik's overt anti-semitism and anti-capitalism narrative.
Note:
Although characterized as one of the rising right wing parties, the Hungarian Jobbik party is NAZI friendly, virulently anti-Israel,
[Hungary must seek independence from "Washington, Brussels," -- that is, the European Union -- "Tel Aviv" and other powers." - Vona Gabor],
["Hungary is a Jewish colony" - brother of Jobbik's VP, "...& pro-Arab/Muslim "]
[first Arab-Hungarian friendship day on 9/11/2010]
Monday, March 12, 2012 Zsolt Andras Biro"Genetically speaking, Hungarians' closest relatives are the "torgaji madjars" of Kazakhstan and among present day Europeans the Bulgarians are our closest relatives; but the research has also found genetic links to Ukrainians and Turks.
Let’s hope Hungary doesn’t have any Russian speakers in it’s population....
Right, oh except for that little to do in 56'! Sorry, I know the spirit in which your comment was made.
The good guys we reelected in Hungary.
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