"Since the refugee crisis, [Fidesz] has become much more radical and even more prejudiced than it was before," Peter Kreko, a political scientist at Political Capital Policy Research and Consulting Institute, told Al Jazeera. [...]
An opinion poll published in early November concluded that Fidesz maintains a support rating of 61 percent, as reported by Hungarian Free Press. [...]
Recent years have seen the party shift from open anti-Semitism to a more brazen form of pro-Russian, anti-Muslim and anti-refugee politics that lines up with other European far-right parties. [...]
Cas Mudde, an expert on far-right politics and associate professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia, said Jobbik "has partly been forced to remake itself into a mainstream right-wing party" because Fidesz has been "effectively dominating 'their' themes of authoritarianism, nativism and populism".
"[Jobbik is] now mainly a radical right anti-Fidesz party though, whose electorate is their core base and radical right people who are upset about the corruption of the governing party," he told Al Jazeera.
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