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Interview with Gyula Thürmer of the Hungarian Workers’ Party
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This video is an interview with Gyula Thürmer, the leader of the Magyar Munkáspárt (Hungarian Workers’ Party), Hungary’s illiberal Communist party, which rejects mass immigration and globalization. Mr. Thürmer discusses his party and its differences from Europe’s other socialist parties, as well as his views of Hungary and European politics more generally. His party will be competing in the national elections on Sunday. This interview was conducted in English by the Visegrád Post, which offers news about Central Europe from a Rightist perspective.

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5 comments
Great interview. Thanks for reposting.
Here’s hoping the Hungarian Workers Party can equal or better their performance in the 1998 Hungarian parliamentary election this time around.
Interesting that this old-line Hungarian Communist’s surname is German.
Per Wiki:
The Hungarian Workers Party (founded Dec. 1989) has never held a seat in their parliament in the post-communist era. Gyula Thuermer (b. 1953, Communist Party member from 1971, educated in Moscow [1976] and then worked for Communist Hungary’s foreign service) has been the Chair of the Hungarian Workers Party since its founding.
National Assembly election results for Hungarian Workers Party
1990: 3.7%
1994: 3.2%
1998: 4.1%
2002: 2.2%
2006: 0.4%
2010: 0.1%
2014: 0.6%
2018: ?
There was clearly some ‘artificial’ downward pressure on their vote-share when it became clear they could not win seats in the new Hungary’s system and its electoral threshold of 5%.
The Hungarian Workers Party took 0.3% in 2018, roughly consistent with their 2006, 2010, and 2014 results.
Any time I try to listen to this man I feel nauseated after a few minutes. I managed to get through the first 5 minutes this time.
“giving people free education”
My mother wasn’t allowed to go to high school because my maternal family was considered “enemies of the people”. What made them enemies? They were middle class farmers before Communism, and even after they were robbed naked they had the temerity to call the cooperative bosses “Mr.” instead of “Comrade”. Literally, that was it. They weren’t resisting politically. They just had an idenity, a sense of who they were, and that was forbidden. I hope Mr. Thürmer gets 0% and finally disappears from the Hungarian political scene forever.
Gyula Thuermer on Immigration and [indirectly/implicitly] on Race:
[26:05]
I would not guess at all that this man is a lifelong Communist to hear him speak on the only issue that matters.
[29:45]
(Note: interview recorded summer 2016, only months after the Migrant Crisis wound down.)
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