LIVE: Benghazi Again. CIA Testifying

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Dymphna

“Talking Points”…who drew them up, and who decided what they would be.

Live stream right now. We will find the archive later but at this moment the live exchanges are here:

The Benghazi Talking Points and Michael J. Morell’s Role in Shaping the Administration’s Narrative

And Mr.Morell, the Acting Director of the CIA during Benghazi, appears to be running away from this radioactive material…

NOTE: I hope to put up a larger background post on Benghazi and the American mis-management of the lead-up to the massacre and the even more egregious mishandling of the aftermath.

There are many Americans, in and out of the government, who are concerned about this debacle and determined not to let this one disappear, not to allow SecState Clinton’s “what does it matter” meme to decide the process of what we will be permitted to know.

Many career personnel are now concerned for their own safety in the face of hazardous duties on the rise and this administration’s proven disregard for their safety.

Too many “I don’t recalls” are starting now…

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The hearing has ended now. So we back up to the already-recorded morning investigation of Mr. Morelli. This is twelve-minute video so it must be a digest:

Mr. Morelli testifies before the House Select Committee on Intelligence, 12 minutes long.

Here is more than an hour, though it’s not clear if this is the whole enchilada…the website for the Committee assumes the watcher is more familiar with their procedures than is reasonable:

Recorded Live, the Hour-Long Testimony of Michael Morelli

Especially listen to the beginning introduction by the head of this committee, but then, you can safely skip the following ~ twenty-one minutes of bumpf.]

Commenters are welcome to reflect on the testimony of Mr. Morelli and/or the Congressmen’s questions.

NB: The head of this committee, Mike Rogers, has announced his retirement from Congress. He will be leaving to begin his own radio program, based in Washington. The grapevine talk is that he’s positioning himself as a potential candidate for the presidential primary campaign – that perennial race which never really stops anymore.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/1/2014

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Baron Bodissey

Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/1/2014 An 8.2-magnitude earthquake struck earlier this evening off the coast of Chile. Two fatalities have been reported so far, and landslides and building damage occurred in several cities. Coastal areas of Chile and parts of Peru have been evacuated in anticipation of a tsunami.

In other news, violence between police and university students continued in four different Egyptian cities. The student are supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Rapes in Sweden, Redux

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Baron Bodissey

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Rapes in Sweden, Redux
by Fjordman

In early 2014, journalist Simen Sætre in the weekly Morgenbladet in Norway published an essay about rapes in Sweden. Curiously, he seemed to be more concerned about the fact that “xenophobic” and “Islam-hating” people like me write about this subject than he was about the actual problem. Sætre has previously claimed, with absolutely zero facts to back up his case, that my essays were never meant seriously. Ironically, the same man who makes claims without any basis in facts has suggested that my texts and views are not fact-based.

Let us look into this matter more closely.

In 2013, 5900 rapes were officially reported to the police in Sweden, according to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brottsförebyggande rådet — Brå). This figure was slightly lower than in 2012, but the reported number has been close to or above 6000 for several years. We’ll stick to a medium number of 6000 reported annual rapes for the last couple of years.

We know with certainty that there are numerous victims who don’t report rape to the police. Many criminologists assume that the official numbers only reveal a minority of such cases. This assumption is backed up by a number of studies.

[Header] Residence permits granted during the year — The number of reported rapes in the years 1980-2008 (Source Migration Board, BRÅ)

[Footer] (grey) Granted residence during the year — (red) Number of reported rapes during the year

Original article (Swedish)

The crucial question is: How much higher is the real number of rapes? Twice as large as the official numbers? Four times as big? Ten times?

In late 2013, I published an essay about this very subject in which I suggested two different estimates for how many rapes there truly are in Sweden. The lowest estimate was that one in four rapes committed are actually reported to the police and listed in official statistics. On average for the last couple of years, more than 6000 rapes have been reported in the country annually. If this merely represents one in four rapes actually committed, the real number is 24,000 rapes annually.

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Beating the Mohammed Meme

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Baron Bodissey

I wince every time I hear Barack Obama say “The Holy Qur(*gulp*)an”. If he’s a Christian, as he claims to be, the book is not at all holy to him. It’s unseemly and embarrassing to hear a president talk this way.

The BBC has caught the same disease. I’ve read BBC news articles about alleged desecrators of “The Holy Qur’an” and accounts of newspapers that publish blasphemous cartoons of the “Prophet Mohammed”. The Beeb doesn’t refer to “Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” in any of its publications, does it? What does this tell you about the official institutional religion at the British Broadcasting Corporation?

The following essay by Sonia Bailey about the Western “Prophet Mohammed” compulsion was originally published at the American Thinker on March 25.

Beating the Mohammed Meme

by Sonia Bailey

North American news outlets are unwittingly caving to Islam. They have fallen into the trap of referring to Islam’s founder Mohammed as The Prophet Mohammed, implying that his “prophethood” is universally accepted. These media outlets, like their European counterparts, are unknowingly extending the influence of Islam to their viewers, thereby doing the proselytistic work of Muslim propagandists who are relentlessly bullying their host society into sharia-compliance. It is precisely this indifference and ignorance that Islam is counting on in order to help subjugate Western civilization to sharia law.

Casually repeating the phrase The Prophet Mohammed, instead of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed, on television to millions upon millions of viewers, cements this phrase into their consciousness until eventually the phrase metamorphoses into a mantra or meme, a term coined by zoologist and atheist Richard Dawkins. A meme is a catchy phrase that spreads quickly like a virus from person to person until the imitated phrase finally gets ingrained into the culture. Grooming gangs, a polite term used by Western media when referring to Muslim rape gangs (the definitive report on this problem in Britain is available here) is another example of a meme.

People are accepting the meme of The Prophet Mohammed as a given, or as a basic fact, in much the same way that a lie told often enough becomes the truth. Eventually, more and more people will come to falsely believe that Mohammed was one of the world’s most righteous prophets, when in reality he was a prophet specific only to Islam, a prophet who showed fanatical hatred for and intolerable discrimination against non-Muslims, women, gays and Western values. He brutally forced other religions to accept his faith with the goal of replacing Western civilization with an Islamic one, all the while enslaving, massacring or taxing those who refused to submit.

Considered in Islam to be the perfect model for humanity, Mohammed the warlord must be emulated. His followers are religiously obligated to copy his banditry practices and violent actions that are all divinely sanctioned in Islamic doctrine. This explains why brutal sharia-compliant acts, such as beheadings, stonings, hangings, limb amputations, child-bride marriages, and female genital mutilation continue to dominate the modern Muslim world.

These barbaric acts that show no regard for human life are rearing their ugly heads in the West as well. Street-killings of non-Muslims, honor-killings, and raping and pimping of underage non-Muslim girls are occurring with regularity. Even worse, acceptance of these atrocities is becoming the new social norm in the West, where they are rarely publicized.

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The Twelver Apocalypse

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Baron Bodissey

Andrew Bostom has written a new book, Iran’s Final Solution for Israel: The Legacy of Jihad and Shi’ite Islamic Jew-Hatred in Iran. In it he analyzes jihad and Jew-hatred in the Persian theocracy over the course of history. In his view, the relatively secular Pahlavi dynasty in the 20th century was an anomalous interval in an otherwise continuous history of apocalyptic Shi’a jihad in Iran. The mullahs who have ruled the country since 1979 are thus representative of an indigenous tradition among Shi’ites in Persia, rather than a sudden outburst of “extremism”.

Dr. Bostom has been appearing on various conservative media outlets to talk about his book. The following video is from his discussion with Monica Crowley on her radio show last weekend. Many thanks to KGS for YouTubing the audio:

Below are excerpts from Ed Driscoll’s interview with Dr. Bostom at Pajamas Media:

Mr. Driscoll: […] I think I can guess what Iran’s ultimate goal is, but in your estimation, how will they achieve what you describe as their final solution for Israel?

Mr. Bostom: Well, this seems to have been the goal of their nuclear program for a long time now. And whether they would actually use a ballistic missile to deliver a nuclear weapon to Israel, [or] turn it over to proxies, who could do something that would be akin to a mass suicide operation, it’s pretty clear from their own rhetoric, which now spans really the entire Khomeini era, even to some extent the pronouncements of Khomeini before he assumed power, that it’s something to be taken quite seriously.

And when you also consider the regime’s willingness to withstand sanctions and all kinds of international pressure not to develop nuclear weapons, you again have to take them at their word.

Mr. Driscoll: Andrew, let me quote from your book’s preface, which begins, “With great fanfare, and giddy expectations of continued diplomatic success, the so-called ‘P5 +1’ interim agreement was announced on November 24, 2013. Ostensibly, these negotiations were going to eliminate Iran’s ability to produce nuclear weapons, and constrain the regime’s hegemonic aspirations, including its oft-repeated bellicose threats to destroy the Jewish State of Israel.”

For those who aren’t familiar with the term, who are the P5+1? And how did they propose disarming Iran, which has long been hell-bent, seemingly literally so, to acquire the Bomb?

Mr. Bostom: The +1, which I’ll give you first, is Germany.

Mr. Driscoll: Yeah, and I wanted to ask you about the +1 when you’re done.

Mr. Bostom: It’s the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, since the U.N.’s founding; the major powers, the major post-World War One powers: Russia [from back when it was still the] Soviet Union; China; Britain; [America]; and France, plus Germany.

And the idea was that you could create a monitored enrichment program for Iran. Now, the fundamental flaw in this premise is that serious nuclear experts understand that the only way to guarantee, particularly with a regime like Iran, because it’s the same processes; whether it’s enrichment to so called, you know, only nuclear fuel grade of five percent or, you know, twenty percent to eighty percent and well into the high enrichment range for weapons, it’s the same exact processes.

So serious weapons prevention experts argue — and they have argued in open Congressional testimony — that the only way to assure that you won’t have a regime like Iran develop nuclear weapons, is to dismantle infrastructure. And that’s exactly what we’ve enshrined instead of dismantling.

Mr. Driscoll: The +1 that you mentioned in that formulation of P5+1 is Germany. What is their relationship with Iran?

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An Independent Beringia?

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Baron Bodissey

Two weeks ago, after months of Russian military buildup in eastern Siberia, 95% of the ethnic Russian residents of northwestern Alaska voted to declare independence from the United States and join their brethren just across the Bering Strait. The only remaining question is whether they will choose to join the Russian Federation, or set up a sovereign independent state known as the Republic of Beringia.

Below is the latest report from The Los Angeles Times on events in Beringia since the referendum:

What next for Beringia?

Nome, April 1 2014

By Scapley Montferrat

The chill wind blows in off the Norton Sound in the harbor area of Nome, the capital of the newly-independent state of Beringia. Longer days have returned to Nome, but there is not yet any sign of spring.

Earlier today I talked to a number of citizens down by the wharf, all of them Beringitsi, the ethnic Russians who have maintained their language and cultural identity here for centuries, since Catherine the Great first wrested Alaska from the Inuit in the 1780s. The fact that Secretary of State William Seward bought their territory from Russia in 1867 is of no moment to them. As far as they are concerned, Beringia remains Beringia.

Most of the men I spoke to were unwilling to give their names or go on the record. However, Pyotr Kornilov, a seal-blubber dealer and boat salesman, was ebullient and talkative. He spoke to me in fluent English, albeit with the peculiar Beringit accent.

“Aye, everyone around here is real happy about the vote,” he told me. “We’ve got our own flag and our own government offices now. Beringia is a reality!” He grinned at me, showing three missing teeth on one side. “We’ve always been Russian, ever since we first kicked the Inuit into the sound!”

I asked him if he thought the new state would join up with Russia.

He gave me a sidelong, canny look. “It’s too early to say, lad. I’ll tell you this, though: we’ll do whatever is in our best interests. That might be Russia, or it might not.”

I asked him about the Beringian economy. He reminded me that large oil reserves were recently discovered under the Chukchi Sea, just off Cape Lisburne.

“We’ve lots of choices about who will develop it, y’know. It’s not just Rosneft. The Chinese are very interested. We had a delegation of Chinese geologists and energy officials up here just last week. We’ll see who offers the best deal.

“I’m partial to the Chinks meself.” He winked at me. “Better-looking women, y’know…”

What caused the Beringian people to vote so overwhelmingly for independence?

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/31/2014

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Baron Bodissey

Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/31/2014 In the wake of the Socialists’ disastrous showing in the French municipal elections, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault felt compelled to resign. President François Hollande has appointed Interior Minister Manuel Valls as Mr. Ayrault’s successor.

Meanwhile, after his party’s victory in Turkish local elections, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised that the “traitors” who defamed him during the election campaign would pay.

In other news, North and South Korea fired artillery shells into each other’s territorial waters in a disputed area of the Yellow Sea near several South Korean islands.

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Voices for the Voiceless

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Baron Bodissey

Everyone who labors in the “Islamophobia” business has to contend with the same issue: a lack of effectiveness in the wider world. As has often been pointed out, this website and others like it constitute for the most part an echo chamber. We are addressing an audience that is already familiar with the issues surrounding Islamization and largely agrees with what we say.

There are intramural battles, to be sure — some of them quite fierce. Does the “moderate” Muslim exist? Can the advance of Islam be stopped without first addressing the issue of globalist socialism? Does the welfare state have to collapse before the cultural enrichment of the West can be turned back? The intensity of the arguments over these questions masks the fact that most of the people engaged in the debate already agree with most of what the Counterjihad stands for.

How do we force the same issues into the attention span of the average uninformed low-information voter? This is the essential problem.

My approach is to pursue multiple tracks, mostly Europe-related, since that’s where the center of gravity for this blog may be found. The Brussels Process is one such track. The involvement of the International Civil Liberties Alliance in fighting creeping shariah through the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is another.

Dr. Bill Warner of the Center for the Study of Political Islam has developed his own ingenious approach to the same problem. He employs the methods of the Left — simplified emotion-based arguments targeting the ill-informed — to shame previously uninvolved people into paying attention to the worldwide persecution of religious minorities by Islam. He uses the same “lefty-speak” as his opponents to occupy the moral high ground in the discussion.

In the following video Dr. Warner provides some specific advice and examples of his approach:

A couple of days ago we mentioned the Religious Communicators Council (RCC) meeting in Nashville later this week. Bill Warner and other activists from Voices for the Voiceless are planning a silent demonstration at the event:

RCC is Training Writers to Deny the Persecution of Christians

We will hold a silent demonstration on Saturday, April 5, 2014 at 11:15 am to protest the Religious Communicators Council (RCC) meeting in Nashville. It will be silent to demonstrate their lack of reporting persecution of Christians. We will invite the media and issue a press release.

The protest will be held rain or shine. Further details about how to park, signs, etc. are posted at voices4voiceless.org

Why We Are Demonstrating

On April 3-5 the RCC will hold a national convention at The Inn at Opryland, 2401 Music Valley Drive, Nashville, TN 37214

There is not ONE RCC speaker who will deal with the persecution of Christians. They support the oppressors, and deny the victims.

Why This is so Important

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An Appeal for Adriana Bolchini Gaigher

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Baron Bodissey

It seems that almost every day we post a fundraising appeal for someone we know who is being prosecuted or fighting a “lawfare” suit because of their struggle against shariah and the Great Jihad. The latest friend to join this unfortunate roster is Adriana Bolchini Gaigher, an Italian activist who is due to appear in court in the next few days as a result of her Counterjihad efforts against UCOII, the Italian equivalent of CAIR. Longtime readers will remember Adriana’s participation in Counterjihad 2007 in Brussels, where she gave the country report for Italy. Since then she has been involved in numerous projects in Italy.

The Lisistrata website has issued an appeal on behalf of Adriana. Many thanks to Gaia for the translation:

We ask for support for ADRIANA BOLCHINI (Lisistrata)

March 31 2014

In a few days, our Adriana Bolchini of Lisistrata will face criminal prosecution under the lawsuit brought against her by Nour Dachan, President of UCOII in recent years (UCOII, Unione delle Comunità e Organizzazioni Islamiche in Italia, is an Italian Islamic association and probably Italy’s largest Muslim umbrella group). As a journalist, Adriana analyzed and expressed her doubts about the veracity of his intervention in favour of Gabriele Torsello, Italian national, kidnapped by the Afghan Taliban, with whom he got in touch from Italy, via the TV talking in Arabic and taking the credit for his release.

In her article Adriana Bolchini pointed out the ruses adopted by Dachan, that by addressing the Afghan Taliban in Arabic he was basically not talking to anyone in particular, or talking to someone that only he was capable of knowing, because the Afghan Taliban belong to a people who geographically are made up of different ethnic groups.

We ask for your support and financial assistance, as much as you can afford, because as you know, legal expenses do not come cheap. If you support the struggle against Islamic fundamentalism, we must not allow trials to silence us. Help us to continue the fight for freedom.

Please make whatever donation you can afford to her current account at the Banco Popolare Lodi, payable to BOLCHINI Adriana IBAN IT78O0503401665000000001260.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/30/2014

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Baron Bodissey

Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/30/2014 The second round of local elections in France gave a boost to the Front National. At least two towns elected FN mayors, and there may be a number of others when the final results are tabulated. Paris elected its first female mayor — a socialist.

Meanwhile, early results in Turkish local elections show the AKP, the party of Prime Minister Erdogan, in the lead.

In other news, although Russia is planning to return Ukrainian military gear that it acquired during the annexation of the Crimea, it is going to keep specially trained combat units of Ukrainian dolphins.

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Fighting for Independence from an Anti-Democratic Oligarchy

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Baron Bodissey

The elections for the European Parliament are coming up in a few short weeks, and the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) is currently surging in the opinion polls. Our British correspondent JP sends a couple of samples of commentary on UKIP and the EU, and includes this note:

Here’s evidence of the UKIP surge in action — see the following best-placed comment for depth of passion, particularly the closing paragraph.

From the comments on Charles Moore: “I’ve been a Eurosceptic for 30 years but my vote will be up for grabs” in The Daily Telegraph, Commentator Dogzzz on 28 March 2014:

So you asking if you want to give away what is left of our sovereignty, our independence, our Birthright to be a confident, self ruling nation, trading confidently and prosperously with the 4.5 billion consumers outside the EU as well as much more competitively with the 0.5 billion in the EU in order to hide, supine and cowardly in the most anti-democratic institution, having unelected foreigners change our laws to benefit other nations, and plunder our wealth to pay for it?

Or do we want to be the confident, friendly, prosperous independent self-governing global traders and friends to all, choosing and implementing our own laws, for the good of our own people, democratic, free and self reliant?

I cannot abide giving away our birthright to a profoundly anti-democratic entity which has just refused to recognise 3 popular referendums in the last three weeks alone. An entity which can now over-rule OUR elected representatives in OUR national Parliament and does so without regard for the needs, or concerns of the British people, at all.

I am unashamedly, proudly and patriotically going to fight FOR our nation, FOR our people and FOR our birthright. A birthright our forefathers fought in two world wars to defend. Democracy, prosperity, the English rule of law, common sense human rights, from the English bill of rights onwards, which we exported all over the world, for the Commonwealth and our historical global trading links with the whole world.

I support UKIP and I support OUR independence from anti-democratic oligarchy.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/29/2014

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Baron Bodissey

Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/29/2014 An “Australian” man named Afroz Ali is complaining that the Abbott government’s proposal to repeal of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act will empower the Jews at the expense of other minorities. Mr. Ali is concerned that the “racist” government is attempting to enable “racists” like Andrew Bolt to express their “racist” opinions with impunity.

In other news, with its delivery of two more bronze statues of Robert Mugabe to Zimbabwe, North Korea has confirmed its status as the world’s largest manufacturer of statues of dictators.

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Springtime in Paris

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Baron Bodissey

The mainstream media don’t want you to know it, but the rise of anti-Semitic attacks in Europe is largely an Islamic phenomenon. The vast majority of harassment and attacks against European Jews — probably more than 95% — are committed by culturally enriched “New Europeans” carrying out the scripturally-prescribed actions demanded by their religion.

The following French news video describes one such attack on a Jewish resident of Paris. Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Below is an article from
Israel National News about the same incident:

French Jew Brutally Assaulted in Paris

Attackers beat Jewish teacher, draw swastika on his chest in savage assault.

A Jewish teacher was savagely beaten by a group of Arab men in a brutal anti-Semitic attack in Paris, according to the Bureau for National Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA).

The attackers — who shouted “death to the Jews” and “filthy Jew” during the assault — broke the victim’s nose and drew a swastika on his chest after tearing open his shirt.

“One of the perpetrators opened the victim’s shirt and with a black marker drew a swastika on the man’s bare chest,” BNVCA president Sammy Ghozlan wrote in the BNVCA report, according to JTA.

The victim — identified only as K. Richard — told police the men had cursed him in Arabic and French, and appeared to have been of North African descent.

He was ambushed after leaving a kosher restaurant and was wearing a kippa (skullcap) at the time of the assault.

Anti-Semitism in France has hit headlines in recent years and has seen a marked increase, with the majority of attacks being blamed on extremists from the country’s sizable Muslim community.

Earlier this year, thousands of supporters of anti-Semitic comedian Dieudonné chanted hate slogans including “Jews out of France!” in a rally in central Paris.

Video transcript:

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Elections in Stalag EU

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Baron Bodissey

In May the ~~serfs~~ citizens of the European Union will go to the polls to express their party preferences for the European Parliament. The EP is largely powerless — the European Commission is the only body in which authority is vested to propose legislation; the parliament is allowed merely to vote for or against such legislation. Still, significant across-the-board gains by the “xenophobic” parties will have a profound effect on the political culture of the EU.

The following report from the Austrian newspaper Die Presse provides an overview of the prospects for various nationalist parties in the upcoming EP elections. Many thanks to JLH for the translation:

No Uniform Victory for Rightist Parties in the EU

Die Presse, March 24, 2014

Along with successes like the Front National in France, some rightist parties have also had some setbacks. Die Presse gives an overview.

Great Britain. British nationalists are on the upswing. The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), which favors withdrawal from the EU, can count on 25% of the vote in the European elections, and could pass the ruling Tories.

Netherlands. The Freedom Party (PVV) is presently experiencing a loss in popularity among voters due to a controversial remark by its leader, Geert Wilders. He promised to “administer away” Moroccans, which led to comparisons with the National Socialists. A wave of withdrawals from his party followed. The PVV fell in the polls from first to third place, behind the Social Democrats and the Right Liberals.

Belgium. Right-wing Vlaams Belang‘s appeal remains low. The party of Flemish nationalists would like to found a rightist faction in the EU parliament with Front National, PVV and other parties, including the FPÖ.

Hungary. Hungary’s radical rightists are clearly more successful. The nationalist Jobbik can count on 15% of the votes in the parliamentary elections on April 6th. For the campaign, the party, which is in third place, has walked back its extremist slogans, and is looking stronger now with social themes. Jobbik is also expected to do well in the European elections in May.

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