May 29th, 2009

Poll finds public support for Jobbik’s views deeper than party backing

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The views promoted by Hungary’s radical nationalist Jobbik party are more popular than the party itself, pollster Median said in a report published by the weekly HVG on Thursday.

There are more sympathisers of the Hungarian Guard, a paramilitary organisation set up by Jobbik, than the number of people who said they would vote for Jobbik, Median said. Around one-third of Hungarians have not even heard of Jobbik, the pollster said.

Of the party’s current sympathisers, 37 percent are former supporters of the main opposition Fidesz party and 19 percent are former supporters of the governing Socialists.

Significantly more people believe that the liberal opposition Free Democrats and the conservative MDF are likely to get a mandate at the EP elections than those who believe Jobbik will get in.

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