Hungarian Labor Party
Magyar Munkáspárt Hungarian Workers' Party |
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Party leader | Gyula Thürmer |
Emergence | Hungarian Socialist Workers Party October 31, 1956 |
founding | December 17, 1989 |
Place of foundation | Budapest |
Headquarters | Munkácsy Mihály u. 51 / a 1046 Budapest |
Youth organization | Baloldali front |
newspaper | A Szabadság |
Alignment |
Communism Marxism-Leninism |
Colours) | red |
Országgyűlés |
0/199 |
Counties |
0/419 |
International connections |
Initiative of communist and workers 'parties in Europe International meeting of communist and workers' parties |
Website | munkaspart.hu |
The Hungarian Workers' Party ( Hungarian Magyar Munkáspárt ) is a Hungarian communist political party . Founded in 1989 as the successor to the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party under the same name, the party was last called the Hungarian Communist Workers Party until 2013 . The party chairman is Gyula Thürmer .
History and naming
The party emerged on December 17, 1989, from parts of the old Unity Party of János Kádár - the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party - unwilling to reform , whose name it took over, while the majority of the party was transformed into the social democratically oriented Hungarian Socialist Party .
From 1993 to 2005 it was called the Workers' Party ( Munkáspárt ). A major split occurred in 1993 when hardliners formed a new party under the old name of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party .
In November 2005, the Labor Party gave itself its current name, the Hungarian Communist Labor Party , after a wing of the Hungarian Labor Party split off in 2006 under the leadership of János Fratanolo.
The party has so far never won seats in the Hungarian parliament . At the municipal level, the party provided a mayor, two deputy mayors and five municipal representatives (as of 2009).
The party resigned on May 1, 2009 from the EU party European Left , of which it was a founding member.
On May 11, 2013, the party had to remove the designation as communist from its name, as a law made public use of names associated with "the authoritarian regimes of the 20th century" a criminal offense. This also includes terms such as liberation , Marxism , socialism or communism . The party has had its current name since then.
The party publishes the weekly newspaper A Szabadság (German Die Freiheit ).
Election results
- 1990 : 3.68%
- 1994 : 3.18%
- 1998 : 3.95%
- 2002 : 2.16%
- 2006 : 0.41%
- 2010 : 0.11%
- 2014 : 0.56%
- 2018 : 0.25%
Individual evidence
- ^ Communism in Hungary today, Budapest Newspaper, January 14, 2008, accessed on January 5, 2012
- ^ Full text: Resolution of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Communist Workers Party. In: RedGlobe. April 28, 2009. Retrieved May 10, 2009 .
- ↑ Hungarian CWP, New name of the Hungarian CWP. In: solidnet.org. May 14, 2013, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on December 3, 2013 .
Web links
- Official website (Hungarian, English, Russian)