Hungary Parliamentary Election - April 6, 2014

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A parliamentary election will be held in Hungary on 6 April 2014.

It will be the first election according to the new Constitution of Hungary which went into force on 1 January 2012. The new electoral law also entered into force that day. For the first time since Hungary's transition to democracy, the election will have a single round. The voters will elect 199 MPs instead of previous 386 lawmakers.

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Main parties:

Fidesz–KDNP (conservative, polls around 48-52% right now)
Unity (center-left opposition, polls around 25-30% right now)
Jobbik (neo-Nazis, polls around 15-20% right now)
LMP (Greens, polls around 2-5% right now)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_parliamentary_election,_2014

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Anyway, this will be a very depressing election ...

Not really, neo-Fascists or ultranationalists/radical nationalists is more accurate.

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Scary poll:

Fidesz 47%
Unity 23%
Jobbik 21% (ugh)
others below 5% threshold
(percentages of decided voters)

Its better than a scenario in which Fidesz needs Jobbik to gain a majority.

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Fidesz never said that they would built a coalition with Jobbik. I know that there are strong prejudices against Hungary respectively Fidesz, but not all of it corresponds to the reality. There are a lot of reasons, why FIDESZ is still heading the polls. Two are, that the hungarians still remember the bad job the last left-wing goverment has done and that FIDESZ ist not neoliberal.

Never claimed they would form an alliance, but such a situation would be highly unstable and chaotic.

Also: quote properly.

EDIT: I agree that Fidesz is demonized too much, but on the other hand they clearly have enacted policies that puts them out of the mainstream of centre-right/conservative European parties, to put it mildly.

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Fidesz never said that they would built a coalition with Jobbik. I know that there are strong prejudices against Hungary respectively Fidesz, but not all of it corresponds to the reality. There are a lot of reasons, why FIDESZ is still heading the polls. Two are, that the Hungarians still remember the bad job the last left-wing government has done and that FIDESZ its not neoliberal.

Never claimed they would form an alliance, but such a situation would be highly unstable and chaotic.

Also: quote properly.

EDIT: I agree that Fidesz is demonized too much, but on the other hand they clearly have enacted policies that puts them out of the mainstream of centre-right/conservative European parties, to put it mildly.

You are quite right. Fidesz is not the western European center-right mainstream. They are still patriotic, still not politically correct and still not adapted to a left-liberal Mainstream of the politico-journalistic class. The western cultural and political left does not like their lack of subjection, as it has an allergy against right-wing self awareness. That is the main reason for the incrimination by biased media. But understand me correctly, I'm not a Fidesz appologet, there is a lot to criticize, for example, that they have spoken out against antisemitism, but still not far-reaching enough, they could be more friendly towards market economy and freetrade etc., but I defend them against unjustified, arrogant accusations of political correctness. And finally, why is the far right Jobbik gaining 10-20%, when Fidesz allegedly is already far right? I would compare Fidesz to the former french RPR with poujadist elements: patriotic, conservative, statist, interventionist, rather than classical liberal.

That's rather irrelevant. The crucial thing is they are outside of the right-liberal/Conservative Western European mainstream. Most political journalists in Western Europe are centre-right, and so are the dominant newspapers, so a "left liberal mainstream" doesn't really exist. A liberal mainstream in the broadest sense of the label "liberal" is more like it.

Fidesz started as a young right-wing neoliberal party.

Yeah, its quite ironic that they started out as young liberal rebels.