This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, April 7th, 2014.

I'm Caleb Brown.

After elections in Hungary, Victor Orban will serve another term as Prime Minister

after rewriting the Constitution, limiting a top court's power and

effectively banning his opposition from the airwaves. In addition, an ultra-nationalist

anti-Semitic party has made large gains in parliament.

Deliber Rojock, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute,

discusses the election results.

Populist politics and populist nationalism

seems to work to a certain extent.

So it's a landslide victory for Mr. Orbán's Fides' Party.

It's his two-thirds supermajority again, and it's happening in spite of the fact that

there is no real program that his party has proposed other than his personality

and his rhetoric and these vague references to Hungarian national interests.

So that's one take away.

The other one is that Mr. Orbán is competing in a space

where there are other streams of Hungarian nationalism present,

most importantly, the Yobik Party, which is an openly racist,

openly anti-Semitic, really ugly political group.

Now this Yobik party spelled J-O-B-B-I-K, they sort of got a foothold a few years ago in the Hungarian

parliament but sort of I guess soften their message in a way to and have made significant

gains. Exactly so they try to come across as more respectable than before.

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