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Jobbik academy raises new generation of extremist leaders
The occasional peak into Jobbik’s King Attila Academy (Attila Király Akadémia) may cause the uninitiated to chuckle or raise an eyebrow at some of their bizarre, esoteric and decidedly cult-like...
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Jobbik’s Gábor Vona made to look prime ministerial in Magyar Nemzet interview
The Magyar Nemzet daily, owned by Fidesz-oligarch Lajos Simicska, who had a very public falling out with his long-time friend and former roommate Viktor Orbán, published a lengthy interview with Gábor...
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History wars: Hungarian radical leftist writes to college classmate, Gábor Vona
Hungary is a small country and early twentieth century author Frigyes Karinthy’s theory on the six degrees of separation isn’t really applicable to a society of this size. As it turns out, during his...
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Gábor Vona’s interview on ATV: I am willing to apologize for Jobbik’s...
For years, as a matter of principle, Hungary’s left-leaning ATV news network didn’t allow the far-right Jobbik’s politicians into its studios. All of that changed just over a year ago and now party...
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Hungary’s Jobbik leader spends a day in kindergarten, exploiting children
When Gábor Vona, leader of the far-right Jobbik party, visited a kindergarten in the Jobbik-controlled town of Ózd, and posted over a dozen photos on Facebook of him mingling, smiling and playing with...
View ArticleLetter to the editor: In defence of Sándor Szakály
One of our readers in the United States was angered by an article we ran about far-right historian Sándor Szakály’s visit to Cleveland and his revisionist views on the Holocaust. The reader’s letter is...
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Former Fidesz media tycoon to help Jobbik beat Orbán
Lajos Simicska, one of the wealthiest and most influential businessmen in Hungary, has often boasted that he was the one to lift Viktor Orbán–once his close friend and former college roommate–to power....
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Viktor Orbán will disregard referendum result — Announces immediate...
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced after his anti-migrant referendum was declared invalid by the National Election Office that he intends to disregard the result and will bring forward a proposal to...
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Viktor Orbán declares Jobbik unpatriotic and a lackey of Brussels
In a series of tense exchanges in Parliament on Monday, after the government’s referendum opposing EU-wide “migrant quotas” was declared invalid, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán went on the offensive. His...
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Orbán loses key vote in parliament due to “treasonous” Jobbik
Lajos Kósa, Leader of the ruling Fidesz caucus in Parliament, called Jobbik leader Gábor Vona a “traitor,” after the far-right party blocked the Orbán government from amending Hungary’s Fundamental Law...
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Hungarian far-right leader Gábor Vona accused of homosexual orgies
One of the relatively refreshing aspects of Hungarian politics until recently was that, broadly speaking, the personal lives of politicians were not paraded before the general public, and the public...
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Hungary’s Viktor Orbán–the Teflon Man
Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party had, by any standards, a terrible last month or so, yet new polling figures suggest that the popularity of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government did not suffer at all....
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Jobbik leader Gábor Vona: Homosexuals can be proud
“Is heterosexuality difficult for you?”–asked conservative journalist András Stumpf of Gábor Vona, the leader of the far-right Jobbik party, in a video interview appearing on the party’s online TV...
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Jobbik’s Gábor Vona wishes Happy Hanukkah to Hungarian Jews and sparks...
Gábor Vona has been trying to shift his Jobbik party away from the far right; he must have thought that one of the best ways to show Hungary and the world that he is serious about ridding the party of...
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Népszava raises questions about massive public funds transferred to...
Hungary’s Népszava daily newspaper has been trying, in vain, to get answers to its questions about how the Jobbik party is spending public funds at its disposal, and precisely what services are being...
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Socialist László Botka is statistically tied with Viktor Orbán in new...
László Botka, the Hungarian Socialist Party’s (MSZP) candidate for prime minister, is statistically tied in popularity with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, according to a poll by the Republikon Intézet....
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Ripost – The pro-Fidesz tabloid that gets 97% of its ad revenue from the...
Ripost.hu is one of Hungary’s bottom of the barrel political tabloids: an online publication that specializes in seedy, politically motivated character assassinations against opponents of Hungary’s...
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Jobbik leader calls on government to apologize to Roma community
Gábor Vona, leader of Hungary’s Jobbik party, is calling on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government to issue a formal apology to the Roma minority. He accuses the ruling Fidesz party of deliberately...
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Jobbik’s Gábor Vona gets a boost in his appeal to centrist voters
For Gábor Vona, Christmas may have come early this year. Henrik Havas, a colourful media personality, television host and author, is writing a book on Mr. Vona. Mr. Havas mostly uses a somewhat tabloid...
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Protesting alongside Jobbik is a risky move for the liberal opposition
There is no doubt that Jobbik, once a party of the far-right, now appears to be a more palatable choice for moderate conservatives than Fidesz, which today occupies the extreme right in both its...
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