HONGRIE: UN PASSE QUI NE PASSE PAS

In: Politique internationale: pi, Band 131

Abstract

Parliamentary member from the Hungarian Jobbik Party ("Movement for a Better Hungary") since 2010, Marton Gyongyosi represents the far-right faction on the Parliament's foreign affairs committee, of which he is also vice chairman. In this interview with Luc Rosenzweig, Gyongyosi expounds on his party's controversial views. After winning 16.67% of the vote in Hungary's recent national elections, Jobbik took 47 of the 386 parliamentary seats. Though not part of the ruling coalition led by Viktor Orban, Jobbik nevertheless acts as a stimulus, urging the government parties to adopt an increasingly prickly form of nationalism. Unlike its far-right counterparts in Europe, the party has not made immigration the central focus of its propaganda. However, its anti-Semitic rhetoric and open hostility toward the country's 600,000-strong Roma population make it a spiritual descendant of the Hungarian fascist movements that were active before and during the Second World War. Adapted from the source document.