Hungary's Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai on Sunday called upon all democratic forces to reject extremism.

In an interview with Hungarian News Agency MTI, Bajnai said that the European parliamentary elections made it clear that the extreme right forces have gained ground all over Europe, including Hungary.

He said that Hungarians should take it as a warning sign that the radical nationalist Jobbik party has won nearly 15 percent of votes and acquired three seats in the recent European parliamentary elections.

Bajnai said that the government resolutely rejects Jobbik's ideology and messages. Jobbik's views endanger Hungarian democracy more than anything else over the past twenty years, he added.

Bajnai said that the issue of the extreme right would be raised during his official visit to Israel starting on Tuesday.

Bajnai called the recent insult of a Holocaust memorial in Budapest "shameful, dismal and base." The government supports a bill seeking to ban Holocaust denial in Hungary, he added.

The incident happened a few days ago when unidentified perpetrators placed pigs' trotters amid iron shoes commemorating the Jewish victims who had to take their shoes off before Arrow Cross gangs, the Hungarian version of Nazis, shot them into the Danube. Police have not found the perpetrators.

Source: Xinhua