Jobbik: Representatives

Social Democrats Dept: Like the continent itself, the middle of the 27-nation assembly is dominated by a huge bloc of moderate conservatives certainly the largest electoral beneficiaries of the economic turmoil alongside a diminished slice of social democrats and wedges of Greens and Liberals. Several dozen ill-dressed Communists sit largely ignored on the far left, according to Globe and Mail. Here you ll find the three elected representatives from Hungary s third-largest party, Jobbik, which attracted 16 per cent of the vote in the last national election. Or, rather, its two representatives, because the third was forced to quit the party this year after he discovered he was Jewish. That should give you some idea of the party s political obsessions: At the moment, it s in the midst of a very public campaign to expose the names of all Israeli dual citizens that is, Jews in government, because it considers them security threats and anonymous telephone bidder What really grabs your attention is the noisy and ragtag group occupying a surprisingly large chunk of the hall s far right. These right-wing extremists and ultra-nationalists take up as many as 120 seats, depending on how you count them. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.