BREAKING NEWS

Hungarian nationalist right wing gains strength

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

APRIL 12, 2010 02:45

The radical right wing party Jobbik has radically increased its strength in the Hungarian elections and will be the third largest party in the coming parliament.

Hungary's center-right party Fidesz reclaimed the right to govern on Sunday, winning over 50 percent of the vote and handing the ruling Socialists a humiliating defeat.

Fidesz's landslide victory had been expected by pollsters and its result of 52.8 percent in the first round translated into 206 seats for now in the 386-seat legislature.

Jobbik has been able to inflate the traditional, relatively small base of extreme nationalist and anti-Semitic supporters with voters from Hungary's struggling country villages where the lack of jobs and poverty-related thievery has exacerbated tensions with Gypsies, or Roma, as they are also called.

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