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HUNGARIAN Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff has ramped up the ruling party’s racist campaign against refugees, posting a video on his Facebook page showing him in a district of Austria’s capital Vienna that he says is dirtier, poorer and increasingly crime-ridden since refugees began living there.
Janos Lazar says in the video that, in 20 years, Hungary’s capital of Budapest could look like the unidentified Vienna neighbourhood if opposition parties “let in the migrants.”
Hungary’s parliamentary elections are on April 8 and the obsessively anti-immigration Mr Orban’s Fidesz party has made migrants the focal point of the campaign.
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
