MSZP: The socialist party; currently holds about 48% of the parliament. They are big part of the current reforms in actually bringing private enterprise into things such as health care and reforming the massive bureaucratic government.
SZDSZ: the Free Liberal party; currently holds about 10% of the parliament. They usually support the socialist, but they support a flat tax instead of one that's with brackets.
MDF: I consider them a decent conservative party. They currently hold about 7% of the parliament, and they an economical conservative stance, but socially a liberal one. They are actually for keeping socialized health care, but they support helping out businesses.
FIDESZ: They are moderate conservative party currently holding about 35% of the parliament. At the moment they refuse to agree with anything MSZP or SZDSZ proposes and demands they step down and allow for early elections. They usually stand for helping the "common person" with tax cuts. They spun the EP elections into their own "national referendum".
Jobbik (MIEP): Far right extreme conservative party. Up till now they have not been able to gain the 5% threshold you need to progress to either the European or the Hungarian parliament. They have slogans such as "Hungary for the Hungarians" and "Gypsy crime is real" and "let's take back the country from this hostage situation".
LMP-HP: The "other politics" and humanist party are both an extremely environmentally friendly and socially liberal parties. They are both quiet new but neither have received the 5% required for either parliaments. They help organize events such as critical mass with thousands of bike riders in Budapest. They want to introduce a EU-wide minimum wage and an EU wide 1% income tax to even out the playing field. They are also big on cutting corruption in the current government.
So what happened?
MSZP: 18%
FIDESZ: 57%
MIEP: 15%
MDF: 5%
LMP: 2.6%
SZDSZ: 2.1%
others: ~1%
This means that of the 22 seats Hungary has, MSZP receives 4, MIEP receives 3, FIDESZ receives 14, and MDF receives 1. This is extremely sad not because my party won, but because Jobbik for the first time ever won seats; and not just one, three seats! Just so you get an idea how unbelivable this is, here is an article about the party leader:
Morvai writes obscene anti-Semitic post
Jobbik chief MEP candidate Krisztina Morvai has written in a message to Hungarian Jews posted on an online forum that “I would be greatly pleased if those who call themselves proud Hungarian Jews played in their leisure with their tiny circumcised dicks, instead of besmirching me. Your kind of people are used to seeing all of our kind of people stand to attention and adjust to you every time you fart. Would you kindly acknowledge this is now OVER. We have raised our head up high and we shall no longer tolerate your kind of terror. We shall take back our country.”
She made the remarks on the Deák Ferenc Civic Forum website.
Morvai's wrath was unleashed by comments from Gábor Barát, finance manager of a New York radiology institute, who called her a psychiatric case and a monster. Barát, referring to himself as “a proud Hungarian Jew,” said Morvai foments hatred and said she should be banned from politics for her dangerous remarks.
Morvai did not deny that she wrote the message, but declined to comment further.
Antall-era foreign minister Géza Jeszenszky said in a message posted on the same forum that “this tone and style are astonishing, unworthy of Hungarian traditions and a woman. All decent Hungarian people can only condemn this contribution. Such words were not written even by Csurka”. (N pp.1&4)
