Szociáldemokrata Párt
The Hungarian Social Democratic Party , also known as the “historical” Social Democratic Party (Hungarian: “történelmi” Szociáldemokrata Párt, SZDP) is a political party in the Republic of Hungary . The party tries to uphold social democracy and democratic socialism .
It emerged in 1989 through a split in the Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP), which was (re) established in the same year . The historical wing of the Hungarian Social Democracy was very critical and skeptical of the ex-communist Hungarian Socialist Party and also ex-communist members of the re-established Social Democratic Party. Both claim the same succession for themselves, namely that of the Social Democratic Party, which belonged to the Hungarian coalition government from 1945 to 1948 , was then forcibly united with the Communist Party and was active again during the uprising in 1956 . Under the leadership of Anna Kéthly, Gyula Keleman and Joseph Fischer, the MSZDP participated in the Provisional Government of Imre Nagy . For the first time in many years, the party newspaper " Népszava " ("The People's Voice") could be published again independently. After the bloody overthrow of the Hungarian Revolution, the party disappeared because of the reprisals and many party leaders fled into exile.
While the social democratic organization, which was first founded in 1989 , is now a small party that works closely with the Hungarian Socialist Party and also had some members of parliament in the Hungarian parliament on a joint list , the "historic" SZDP decidedly rejects this cooperation and has in recent years rather the right-wing populist Fidesz was closer.
At first a very small splinter group, the party has in a way grown in importance since 1997 when it was joined by a large number of people who left the MSZDP in 1997. They turned against the centralized leadership style of László Kapolyi , who had led the MSZDP into close collaboration with the ex-communists. This group included some former social democratic politicians from the post-war period 1945–1948 and the Imre Nagy government. B. Róbert Gábor, Sándor Bácskai and Ernő Nagy .
The party remained marginal in the elections, but still achieved limited success at the local level. When Mátyás Szűrös was part of the party leadership from 2003 to 2005, the party leaned towards populism and Fidesz . The current party leader is Tibor Sztankovánzki .
Ideologically, the party is particularly close to British democratic socialism . She is against comprehensive privatization and neoliberalism . Anna Kéthly is considered to be one of the most important figures in the historical tradition of this party.
The traditional strongholds of the party and the Hungarian social democracy are the industrial areas of Budapest , in particular Óbuda , Pesterzsébet and Angyalföld .
Individual evidence
- ^ András Bozóki: The Roundtable Talks of 1989. Central European University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-9-639-24121-3 , p. 75 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).