Hungary's far right belongs to the establishment now

In Hungary's parliamentary elections in April the right-wing extremist Jobbik party went from zero to winning almost 17 percent of the vote. Now the party must strike a fine balance between meeting voters' expectations and daily work in parliament, writes political expert József Jeskó in the online edition of the left-liberal weekly Heti Világgazdaság: "The cases of corruption among the Socialists, who were in power between 2002 and April 2010, and the artificially driven witch-hunt against the Roma minority gave Jobbik the breeding ground to press for radical change. ... However the defeat of the Socialists and Fidesz' attainment of the two-thirds majority in the parliamentary elections in April have more or less disarmed Jobbik. ... Then there are the internal tensions arising from the party's entry into parliament. ... The times have ended when Jobbik was able to claim that its politicians didn't belong to the political establishment and were a voice of the people."

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