Cover Osteuropa 6/2010

In Osteuropa 6/2010

Seismograph Hungary?
The Political Right, the Elections und the Consequences

Karin Bachmann


Deutsche Fassung

Abstract

The April 2010 parliamentary elections in Hungary resulted in a lurch to the right. The rightwing-conservative Fidesz won more than two-thirds of the seats. Third-strongest party was the rightwing, radical Jobbik. Fidesz does not need the rightwing radicals to govern; nonetheless, it is not clearly setting itself apart from them. The new prime minister, Viktor Orbán must banish the spirits that he has so far tolerated.

(Osteuropa 6/2010, pp. 13–18)