* Voting starts at 0400 GMT, polls close at 1700 GMT
* Latest opinion polls put ruling Fidesz firmly ahead
* Far-right Jobbik party on track for strong showing
By Gergely Szakacs
BUDAPEST, April 6 (Reuters) - Hungarians vote on Sunday in a parliamentary election set to return Prime Minister Viktor Orban to power for another four years and entrench the far-right Jobbik party as a force in Hungarian politics.
The 50-year-old Orban has had repeated rows with the European Union and foreign investors over the way he pursues what he sees as the national interest.
But he is popular with many voters for stabilising public finances and cutting their electricity and gas bills. Opinion polls show his Fidesz party is on course for a landslide victory.
Two questions remain: whether Orban can retain his two-thirds majority in parliament, which allows him to change the constitution, and whether Jobbik can make a late surge and overtake the leftist opposition to become the second biggest political force.
A good result for Jobbik, accused by critics of being anti-Semitic and stoking antipathy toward Hungary's Roma minority, could be a harbinger of how other nationalist right-wing parties perform in European Parliament elections next month.
Public support for Orban's Fidesz stood at 34 percent a week before the vote in a survey by pollster Ipsos, a leftist alliance led by Socialist party Chairman Attila Mesterhazy scored 20 percent and Jobbik was third with 14 percent.
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Orban has pledged to stick to his policies if reelected, continuing to cut energy prices and getting rid of foreign currency mortgages that are burdening households. Foreign banks fear this could inflict further losses on them.
More unpredictable policies could weigh on the forint, especially if the central bank - led by a strong ally of Orban's - cuts interest rates further from record lows, against a backdrop of jittery sentiment in global markets.
"A Fidesz-led government would guarantee long-term political stability and policy continuity," Blanka Kolenikova, Senior Analyst at think tank IHS Country Risk, said in a research note.
"However, it would further erode the investment and business environment, undermining Hungary's competitiveness towards its regional peers."
Critics say Orban has used his mandate to curb democratic checks and balances and the freedom of the media, allegations his government rejects.