Hungarian truth and life party

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The Hungarian Truth and Life Party ( Hungarian Magyar Igazság és Élet Pártja , MIÉP , also translated as' Party of Hungarian Truth and (Hungarian) Life ',' Hungarian Party of Truth and Life ',' Party of Hungarian Justice and Hungarian Lebens', 'Party for Hungarian Law and Life', etc.) is a right-wing extremist political party in Hungary . She was represented in the Hungarian Parliament from 1998 to 2002.

ideology

The MIÉP describes itself as radically national - conservative , observers attribute it to right-wing extremism . Her most important political personality was the politician, writer and journalist István Csurka , who, especially during his active time as a member of the Hungarian parliament, repeatedly attracted attention at home and abroad through anti-Semitic statements. The party rejects the Trianon Treaty of 1920, which at the time had devastating consequences for Hungary - up to 30 percent of ethnic Hungarians now live outside the country's borders and Hungary lost 71 percent of its national territory - and consequently calls for the re-establishment of Greater Hungary , too Transylvania , Slovakia and parts of Serbia and Croatia included.

In 2002 Csurka ran unsuccessfully for the post of Mayor of Budapest .

The history of the party

The party was founded in 1993 by István Csurka, who with this step left the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF). Considered in the parliamentary elections in 1994 with 1.6% of the vote, the MIÉP received 5.5% in 1998 and was thus able to form a parliamentary group for the first time. Until 2002 the party was represented in the Hungarian parliament. In 2002 the party received no mandate, in 2006 it ran in the parliamentary elections together with the Jobbik party in the electoral alliance “Third Way” ( Harmadik út ), but could not overcome the mandatory 5 percent hurdle for a mandate.

Even before the elections, the electoral alliance distanced itself from helping the Citizens' Union (Fidesz) under Viktor Orbán to win, which divided the electorate in favor of a change of power.

However, parts of MIÉP supported Fidesz and were rewarded with posts in cultural life.

literature

  • Andreas Bock: Hungary. The "truth and life party" between ethnocentrism and racism. In: Eastern Europe , Volume 52, No. 3/2002, pp. 280-292.
  • Magdalena Marsovszky: Magyar Igazság és Élet Pártja. In: Handbook of Antisemitism. Hostility to Jews in the past and present. On behalf of the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin, ed. by Wolfgang Benz in collaboration with Werner Bergmann , Johannes Heil, Juliane Wetzel and Ulrich Wyrwa, Editor: Brigitte Mihok, Vol. 5, Organizations, Institutions, Movements, De Gruyter, Berlin 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bock: The "truth and life party" between ethnocentrism and racism. 2002.
  2. ↑ Tom Thieme: Political extremism in East Central Europe - conditions of origin and manifestations. In: Threats to Freedom. Extremist ideologies in comparison. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, p. 344.
  3. ^ Albert Scharenberg: Bridge to Mainstream - Mainstream as a Bridge. European right-wing parties and their policies against immigration. In: Globalized right-wing extremism? The extremist right in the era of globalization. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, p. 101
  4. ↑ András Körösényi, Gábor G. Fodor, Jürgen Dieringer: The political system in Hungary. In: The political systems of Eastern Europe , 3rd edition, VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, p. 395.
  5. ^ Klaus Bachmann: Populist parties and movements in Central Eastern Europe. In: Populism. Danger to Democracy or Useful Corrective? VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, p. 226.
  6. ^ Susanne Pickel : Informal Politics in Parties in Hungary - The Relationships between Parties and Citizens in a Transition Country. In: The social anchoring of political parties. Formal and informal dimensions in an international comparison. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, p. 169.
  7. ↑ Melani Barlai, Florian Hartleb: extremism in Hungary. In: Extremism in the EU countries. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, p. 419.
  8. ^ Sándor Pesti: The most important specifics of the political and legal system of institutions in Hungary. In: Years of Change. Peaceful revolution in the GDR and transition in East Central Europe. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, p. 296.
  9. ^ Kai-Olaf Lang: Populism in East Central Europe. In: Populism in Europe - Crisis of Democracy? Wallstein Verlag, 2005, p. 141.
  10. ↑ Körösényi, Fodor, Dieringer: The Hungarian political system. 2010, p. 390.
  11. ↑ Máté Szabó: Hungary's way from the happiest barracks in the Eastern Bloc to the EU's new residential complex. In: Years of Change. Peaceful revolution in the GDR and transition in East Central Europe. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, p. 84.
  12. ^ Jürgen Dieringer: The political system of the Republic of Hungary. Origin, development, Europeanization. Verlag Barbara Budrich, Opladen 2009, p. 12.
  13. ↑ Zoltán Kiszelly: conditions for success of new parties in Hungary. In: Parties in Young Democracies. Between fragility and stabilization in East Central Europe. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008, p. 97.

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