Another angle to this mess is that the capital Budapest has long been a bastion of the left/liberal block (giving a capital-countryside angle to the polarisation). All wings of the right-wing would like to take it over in the local elections next month, but apparently with opposed strategies: the far-right believes in taking it with a stronger storm than ever before, the 'moderates' seem to believe they can only do it by abandoning prior elections' rhetoric.

Budapest elected the same (liberal) major on the four previous occasions, but the man grew grey in the job by now, and got into some troubles. So the right-wing candidate Tarlós, who was a district major and who runs officially as an independent (without Fidesz's emblem on his campaign posters), but who is a law-and-order populist and power-hungry in the style of French right-wing Presidential hopeful Sarkozy, pulled equal in the polls.

Tarlós' reaction to the riots was tortured: he previously accepted the endorsement of his candidacy by another major far-right youth group: Jobbik, a short for right-wing youth community that also reads "the right one", with both meanings; they used to be Fidesz-aligned, but ran with a small far-right party in the elections. They too participated in the events, so Tarlós had to say that 'people are right to protest, but not right to attack policemen and destroy property, so if it is proved that Jobbik guys are responsible for breaking policemen's shields, I'll reject their endorsement'.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}