Jobbik

Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom ( German Movement for a Better Hungary ), short Jobbik, is an existing since 2003 far-right Hungarian party. The party usually used only the name " Jobbik ", a Hungarian pun, as the word at the same time " the better " and " the Rechteren " can mean so the party name can be used as " The Better Party " as well as " The right-wing party " to be understood. Jobbik defines itself as a " value-oriented, conservative, but radical acting, Christian and patriotic" party. Since the 2010 elections, it is the third largest party in the Hungarian parliament is currently a total of 44 seats ( 11.39 percent).

Substantive Profile

According to political science the party ties in rhetoric, symbolism and self-presentation to the National Socialist Arrow Cross Party, which ruled in Hungary during the occupation by Nazi Germany 1944-1945. So Jobbik propagating example antiziganism, the struggle against Israeli investors in Hungary, the repeal of the Treaty of Trianon and the restoration of the Kingdom of Hungary. Compared to the Roma ( " Gypsies " ) it calls for a policy in which the weight should be placed on the duties to emphasize instead the rights. She claims that she the "decent" Roma will help, but not the " dishonorable ". Also to be found in public punishable according Jobbik homosexual acts. The party is regarded by many observers as anti-Semitic; she herself denies this, however, and calls himself a Zionist. In order to rebut the anti-Semitism allegations against Jobbik, the party leader Gábor Vona met personally with the anti-Zionist Rabbi Moshe Ber Beck of Neturei Karta and wrote an open letter to Ilan Mor, the Israeli ambassador to Hungary, where he reported it in March 2013.

In foreign policy, Jobbik demands that the Hungarian state should stick out for the interests of the Hungarian minorities in neighboring countries, which were separated by the Treaty of Trianon Hungary. In addition, the party is aligned anti-Western and argues for a Facing: East of Hungary. She is a representative of this Turanism emanating from a common origin of Hungary and the Turkic peoples. In addition, it is also adjusted pro-Russian. The output of the Crimean referendum in March 2014 was welcomed by her. It calls for the improvement of the Hungarian relations with Russia, China, India, Central Asia and the Muslim world. Unlike many other European right-wing parties they expressly disclaims Islamophobia. Instead, they regarded liberalism and Zionism as an opponent. According to party leader Vona Islam is a bastion of traditional culture and " the last hope of humanity amid the gloom of globalization and liberalism."

History

The party comes from a university community anti-communist student who was very influential, especially in the humanities faculties of Hungary. In 2003, the leaders of the student movement have decided to party establishment.

In the 2006 elections, the party has a candidate together with the right party MIEP the writer István Csurka, but the entry into the Hungarian Parliament is the coalition did not succeed. After internal squabbles have many co-founder, as the first chairman of the party, Dávid Kovács, leave the party.

Jobbik is the political arm of the court now banned paramilitary Magyar Garda ( Hungarian Guard ), which was founded in the aftermath of the anti-government demonstrations in 2007. Gábor Vona Its chairman is simultaneously head of the Guard. After the final resolution of the Hungarian Guard by the Budapest Municipal Court on July 2, 2009, it was founded as New Hungarian Guard once again and serves as the Jobbik since Saalschutz at events. The Hungarian Guard is trying to establish itself in smaller towns beyond the gendarmerie ( csendőrség ) and holds regular rallies on what triggers fear in the residents in the villages of Roma population. As a result of their activities led to more violence, most recently on November 14, 2009 in the Hungarian town Sajóbábony than after scuffles and property damage only by strong police presence the escalation between Roma and members of the Guard could be prevented.

Elections 2009

The party took independently in elections to the European Parliament, in part, their list was led by the openly anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli oriented Krisztina Morvai and got surprisingly strong 14.77 per cent with a total voter turnout of 36 percent, three seats in the European Parliament. The party is thus already at their first participation in a national election and nationally third force become, with only slightly fewer voters than their greatest political opponents, the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP = Magyar Szocialista PART).

After the European elections representative of the party have openly announced their intention to leave pick up the Treaty of Trianon and the Beneš decrees. This requirement corresponds to the demand for restoration of the Kingdom of Hungary from the period before 1919.

In July 2012, the European parliamentarians Csanád Szegedi resigned from all party posts. After he had stepped through anti-Semitic remarks, he learned that he himself is of Jewish descent, and tried to avoid publishing an announcement with bribery.

Parliamentary elections in Hungary in 2010

On 18 December 2009, the party officially announced to send its founder and chairman Gábor Vona as a top candidate and candidates for the post of prime minister in the Hungarian parliamentary elections in the spring of 2010. MEP Krisztina Morvai to be nominated for the office of president. The minimum goal of the party was, according to a party spokesman is more cut off at the next election as the socialists of the MSZP, because these " are incapable of perceiving Hungarian interests." The Socialists were traded in polls 18 to 22 percent, Jobbik at 10 to 15 percent (as of December 2009). In fact, the party on April 11, 2010 Got the first round 16.67 percent of the votes and after the second round of voting on April 25, they got 12.18 percent of the parliamentary seats ( 47 of 386 ) assigned.

It was only on 15 December 2009, the party had suffered a legal defeat. The Supreme Court had declared the ban on the party militia Hungarian Guard for res judicata.

In the electoral program of the party is their most important task, the "reunification of the Hungarian nation." Hungarians living abroad to obtain Hungarian citizenship and representation in parliament of Hungary. In March 2010, said Tamás Gaudi -Nagy - No. 5 on the list of candidates of the party - the party requires a minimum " a guarantee of self-determination of sites of Hungarians abroad " and "if it should be necessary, in each case, a boundary change by a referendum to be made "; without going into details, he added: " We also need a strong army." In the electoral program of the party is, accordingly, that the military expenditure of Hungary should be doubled and the size of the Hungarian army to be increased from 30,000 to 72,000.

In Jobbik party organ Barikad was on the front page to see in 2010 a photo montage of a statue of the Budapest city's patron Gerhard, who holds a menorah in the air. Underneath was written: " Budapest awake! Is this what you want? "With this much-criticized photo Jobbik wanted to denounce the allegedly excessive activity Israeli investors in Hungary, according to Vona.

Presence

The current chairman is the young historian Gábor Vona, who was formerly the chairman of the student council at the Faculty of Humanities of the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest. The most well-known head of the party is but the lawyer and university lecturer Krisztina Morvai, who has worked for years as a women's rights advocate for the UN. In the elections to the local parliament of Budapest's 9th district Ferencvaros in January 2010, the candidate of the party, Csanád Szegedi received more than eight percent of the vote. 2012 Szegedi learned that he had Jewish ancestors, therefore, left the party in 2013 and now sits as an independent member of the European Parliament.

Unlike other right-wing parties in Europe, a large part of the electorate of Jobbik is on average highly educated. According to a representative survey of the Institute Belvedere Meridional Jobbik is currently the most popular party among Hungarian students.

In October 2013 several former members founded the party Jobbik Magyar Hajnal ( "Hungarian Dawn " ) because the Jobbik is not radical enough in their opinion. Magyar Hajnal the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn as a model and indicates to want to cooperate with all nationalist organizations that are not considered as allies of the Jobbik. Furthermore, trying to compete in the parliamentary elections in 2014, in competition with the Jobbik party announced.

The Hungarian Holocaust researchers Laszló Karzai called Jobbik as " neo-Nazi " party, because they have a cult of the open anti-Jewish Regent Miklós Horthy (1868-1957) operate. An application for this designation action of the party was rejected by the panel Budapest court on 28 January 2014. According to the court, this statement was covered by freedom of expression, because the terms "Nazi" and " neo-Nazi " are not synonymous, and Karzai was not harmed by his statement to the reputation of Jobbik. However, for social and professional debate on the classification of the party, the court declined to comment.