February 15th, 2010

Radical nationalist Jobbik plans shadow government

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Hungarian radical nationalist party Jobbik is setting up a shadow government, and on Friday the party presented its candidate to head the Prime Minister’s Office.

Jobbik’s leader Gabor Vona, who will lead the party into the election as its PM-candidate, said the most important considerations when forming the structure of ministries were efficiency, control and professionalism.

Vona said the party sought a “golden mean” in order to prevent excessive decentralisation which threatened disjointed government on the one hand, and excessive political centralisation which would undermine professional considerations, on the other.

If Jobbik enters government, it plans to run ten ministries, mostly those that already exist, as well as a minister in charge of ethnic Hungarians beyond the borders and another minister in charge of church affairs, Vona said.

Jobbik has steadily built on its strong showing in the European Parliamentary elections last June, and currently commands around 14 percent of decided voters, according to the latest Szonda Ipsos poll. Other surveys suggest that the party will comfortably surmount the five percent threshold for parliamentary representation.

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  1. Viking says:
    February 15, 2010 at 10:43 am

    3 things here;
    1) This is old news, we are waiting since 1 month for Jobbik to release the members of this ‘Shadow Government’, so we can see what competence Jobbik has on Minister-level
    So far we have not seen that
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    2) Does the statement “If Jobbik enters government” mean that Jobbik will enter a coalition-Government, which was categorically denied by the Jobbik-leadership one month ago also
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    3) And the only thing Jobbik changes in the structure of the Hungarian State Management are to “a minister in charge of ethnic Hungarians beyond the borders and another minister in charge of church affairs”
    Not very revolutionary or even radical, but the Vatican will be happy
    But the Vatican is not ‘Hungarian’, actually the whole Catholic Church is synonym with Hungary being oppressed by ‘the bloody foreigners’ since over 1000 years
    And were will the support be for all these pagan tradition people like Law support, hardly ‘Church matters’