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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...name derives from job, a word meaning "right" or "better" - garnered 14.8% of the votes in the country's European elections with a campaign themed around the Arpad stripes, the nationalist flag that was co-opted by Hungarian fascists in the 1930s and 1940s. The party's chairman, Gabor Vona, 30, also chaired the Magyar Garda - or Hungarian Guard - a private militia that appeared at Jobbik rallies and marched through scores of Hungarian villages as part of its self-proclaimed mandate to protect "ethnic Hungarians" against the 6%-10% of the population of 10 million that are ethnically Roma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The March to the Far Right | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...simple: it is distrustful of outsiders, opposes foreign ownership of agricultural land and is proudly Christian. After the group was founded in 2003, it erected crosses across the country in protest against the foreign commercialization of Christmas. "We provide the most authentic and clearest answer for problems," says Vona. "And we express the wish of a lot of people that Hungary should belong to Hungarians." (Read: "Murder Mystery: Who's Killing Hungary's Gypsies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The March to the Far Right | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

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