INTERNATIONAL POLICY ANALYSIS ANDRÁS BÍRÓ NAGY, TAMÁS BOROS & ÁRON VARGA December 2012 Right-wing Extremism in Hungary Main actor of right-wing extremism in Hungary is the Jobbik party, which won about 15 per cent of the votes in the European elections of 2009 as well as in the general elections of 2010. Being the third party in Hungarian Parliament, it broadly suc- ceeded in its agenda setting. Ruling Fidesz party of Prime Minister Orban took over several bullet points of the Jobbik extremist party programme and adopted them as part of the government’s policy. Jobbik’s discourse is a mixture of anti-communism, anti-gypsyism, nationalism and hostility towards elites, particularly »all-corrupt« politicians. Obviously, there is a re- sponse to these – often very simpliied – prejudices in the Hungarian population: More than one third of the voters can be considered as anti-democracy, anti-EU and against market economy. Since the end of communism, the Hungarian society has undergone deep changes. Today, only less than on third of the population considers itself as more or less pro- gressively orientated. The main left party MSZP has crashed in the last elections and today represents nor more than 20 per cent of the votes. n n n