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Rise Of Far Right?

February 2010 | Risk Summary

Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai warned the country's main political parties on February 22 of the potential rise of the far-right Jobbik party in April's upcoming elections, calling the party a 'monster that threatened democracy'. Jobbik (which campaigns on a broadly ethnic-nationalist policy platform)'s popularity has increased steadily throughout the economy's ongoing recession, with the party winning three seats in June's European parliamentary elections.

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