| Led by István Csurka
of the May 1998 general election votes
Virulently anti-Semitic party which calls for the expulsion of the Roma from Hungary and made its first electoral breakthrough in the May 1998 general election. Describing itself as 'Neither right, nor left, Christian and Hungarian', the MIEP calls for resistance against globalisation and the financial diktats of the IMF and the World Bank.
Hungary is presently led by a centre-Right coalition government but its system of proportional election with its 5% threshold means that the MIEP has 14 seats (total 386) in the national parliament. There is growing concern over the MIEP's influence over the coalition government and several MIEP supporters have been given key positions in the state television company. In local elections in October 1998, he MIEP scored 5.09% of the vote, with mayors elected in four districts. It scored 9.15% of the vote in Budapest and has 6 seats on the Budapest assembly (total 66).
In the June 2004 European parliament election, it failed to cross the 5 per cent threshold to gain representation. |