Hungary's far right Jobbik party  re-established its paramilitary arm, the Hungarian Guard Movement  at a mass rally in Budapest on Saturday, defying a court ban on  the organization.

Some 2,500 people responded to a legally binding court decision of July 2 banning the organization established in August 2007 and  registered as a tradition-nurturing and cultural body but better  known for its harassment of the country's Roma (Gypsy) population, by gathering in downtown Budapest, wearing Guard uniforms. Many  liken these uniforms -- black pants, white shirts, and black vests -- to the ones worn by the World War II Hungarian Nazi party.

Local wire service MTI reported that Jobbik Party Manager Gabor Szabo made an official presentation of uniforms to founding  members of the new Hungarian guard. They included Hungary's former Defense minister Lajos Fur, who called the Hungarian Guard  Movement the greatest miracle in 20th century and Hungarian  history. Also donning the guard uniform was Calvinist preacher  Lorant Hegedus Jr., a man well known for his right-wing views, and his wife Eniko, who is mayor of Budakeszi, a suburb of Budapest. 

Prominent among participants were Jobbik President Gabor Vona  and two of the three delegates to the European Parliament elected  in June when the party won nearly 15 percent of the popular vote,  Krisztina Morvai and Csanad Szegedi. Szegedi said he planned to  wear the guard uniform when receiving his credentials at the  founding session of the European Parliament next week.

Vona promised to wear the uniform in parliament if his party  won seats in the next election. Hungarians were more afraid of " Gypsy crime," the multinational corporations, Israeli buyers and  the government than Hungarian Guard, he said.

The rally was called to protest police actions after they  dissolved a similar gathering last Saturday protesting the  dissolution of the guard and demanding early elections.

Morvai told the gathering that the goal of the police action  was to turn Hungary into a colony -- a second Palestine. Their  objective, she said, was to intimidate Hungarians. She demanded an end to "disregarding the right to assembly and the trampling of  rights."

Speaking at a news conference before the rally, Morvai  announced that Jobbik EP delegates would be seated as independents, since the Independency/Democracy group -- IND/DEM -- has declined  community with Jobbik because of its affiliation with Hungarian  guard.

In a separate development, some 300 people rallied at another  Budapest venue to declare their support for the well-known right  wing personality Gyorgy Budahazy, recently arrested and charged  with making preparations to conduct terrorist actions. Members of  several far right organizations including Jobbik and the  revanchist Sixty Four Counties Youth Movement addressed the crowd  from atop a minivan, which sported German tags.