Slovaks worried at outcome of Hungarian elections

Opinion polls in the run-up to the parliamentary elections in Hungary put voter support for the nationalist Fidesz party and the extreme right Jobbik as high as 80 percent. The left-leaning Slovak daily Pravda is alarmed: "The Hungarian radicals in Jobbik break one taboo after the next, and openly support the revision of the Trianon Agreement [which stripped Hungary of two thirds of its territory after WW I]. They demand territorial expansion and a stronger army. ... Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party pursues similar goals, albeit with a more culturally-oriented face. Fidesz wants to introduce Hungarian citizenship for all Hungarian minorities [in neighbouring countries]. If they have their way they may soon file a suit against the Beneš Decrees [that were directed against Hungarians in the former Czechoslovakia] at the European Court of Justice. ... So it's only a matter of time before Slovakian politics is once more put under pressure by Hungary."

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