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Hungary elections: first step to power for far-Right since Nazi era

The far-Right is poised to take parliamentary seats for the first time since the Second World War, in Hungary's national elections.

Fidesz, Hungary's centre-right party, is expected to sweep out the unpopular Socialist government and Jobbik, a far-right party is predicted to take second place after Sunday's elections.

Hungary's largest Jewish organisation warned that the vote was "the first occasion that a movement pursuing openly anti-Semitic policies" has taken a step to power since the Nazi era.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)