The strengthening of the extreme-right

090315jobbik The strengthening of the extreme right

The more active and threatening extreme-right movement from Europe party is in Hungary. It calls himself Jobbik (Movement to a Better Hungary) and has three representatives in the European Parliament.

There are suspicions that members of Jobbik are behind 16 attacks with Molotov cocktails and firearms against the gypsy community registered from July of 2008, that left six died and several wounded, among them children and women. Jobbik bases its campaign for the general elections of 2010 on promises as the one of taking drastic measures against what they call “the gypsies criminality”.

That strategy, based on a violent language, it counts with the support from 11 to 12% of the voters, according to recent researches. The public faces of Jobbik are Krisztina Morvai and Gábor Vona. The first is an intellectual professor that already won a Mercury prize for her commitment with the patients of Aids. The second, a youth historian. Both disqualify the critics their rhetoric anti-Gipsy and anti-Semitic as themes of an European press that feeds of prejudices, but actually their public speeches are based on ideas as the Jewish world conspiracy and the gypsy criminality.

With that slogan Jobbik won popularity in the last European elections. It is a message that is growing, which is diffused in the site Jobbik.com. And not only in Hungarian, but also in English, German and French, maybe with the intention of having relationships with other extreme-right European movements.

But the extreme-right’s growth it is not limited to Hungary, and the economical crisis does with those groups grow more and more, turning the future a little shadier.

Via: El Pais.

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