HUNGARY: FAR RIGHT PARTY STAGE RALLY AGAINST CAPITALISM.

Record ID: 215403

  • Title: HUNGARY: FAR RIGHT PARTY STAGE RALLY AGAINST CAPITALISM.
  • Date: 19th March 2002
  • Summary: (U6) BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (MARCH 15, 2002) (REUTERS ACCESS - ALL) 1. MV: SUPPORTERS WITH HUNGARIAN FLAG SITTING ON MONUMENT 0.05 2. MV/GV: SKINHEADS WITH PICTURE OF HUNGARIAN SOLDIERS FROM SECOND WORLD WAR (2 SHOTS) 0.16 3. GV: SKINHEADS WALKING WITH HUNGARIAN FLAG. 0.21 4. GV: PEOPLE WAVING FLAGS. 0.33 5. MV/PAN: KID ON HIS FA
  • Embargoed: 3rd April 2002 13:00
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  • Location: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
  • Country: Hungary
  • Reuters ID: LVA815RU0OU1TXJNMWAP6MJ8BRSO
  • Story Text: The Hungarian far-right has rallied against capitalism.



    Hungary's far-right Justice and Life Party (MIEP) -
    seen as a potential power broker after next months general election,
    railed against the forces of capitalism at a mass rally on
    Friday (March 15).

    The party president, Istvan Csurka told at least 50,000
    people on the country's national day, the anniversary of the
    failed 1848 anti-Hapsburg revolt, that nobody can force
    Hungarians to adopt capitalism and that the Hungarian future
    could go two ways -- they either survive or they melt into
    something frighteningly alien.

    Maverick playwright Csurka, best known for his
    anti-semitic and national remarks, said the forces of global
    capitalism would reduce Hungarians to second-class citizens in
    their own country.

    Three weeks ahead of general elections scheduled for April
    7 and 21, the party's 176 candidates took an oath at the rally
    promising to serve the rebirth of Hungary if elected.

    Recent polls show a swing in favour of the ruling
    centre-right Fidesz and that the Justice and Life party may
    not reach the five percent vote it needs to make it to
    parliament.

    The Justice and Life party offered to withdraw over 100
    candidates in the second round to help the ruling-right Fidesz
    party and block a leftist government.

    Analysts have warned that any election pact between Fidesz
    and the Justice and Life party would damage Hungary's bid to
    join the European Union and unnerve financial markets.



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