Jobbik sees land issue as Orban’s failure

Budapest (MTI) – Prime Minister Viktor Orban has suffered a defeat in connection with the sale of state-owned land and blamed Jobbik for “his erroneous land policy”, the radical nationalist Jobbik said on Friday.

Jobbik responded to a statement by the ruling Fidesz group earlier in the day which accused the opposition Socialists and Jobbik of joining forces “in the interests of foreign speculators”. According to the statement, the opposition parties have together attacked Hungarian farmers at the European Union and Hungary’s Constitutional Court.

Jobbik called it shocking that Fidesz was “building a new system of large farms for the party’s oligarchs” and at the same time blaming Jobbik for its “own erroneous land policy”.

Even Fidesz has now admitted that foreigners will be allowed to buy Hungarian farmland, Jobbik said. This shows that their former combatant approach to the European Union was purely rhetoric and has diminished into opportunism.