National Democratic Alliance
Nemzeti Demokrata Szövetség
Co-PresidentsZoltán Bíró
Imre Pozsgay
Founded17 May 1991
Dissolved20 January 1996
NewspaperKiegyezés
IdeologyThird Way
Political positionCentre to Centre-left

The National Democratic Alliance (Hungarian: Nemzeti Demokrata Szövetség; NDSZ) was a short-lived centre-left party in Hungary, founded and led by Zoltán Bíró and Imre Pozsgay, defectors from the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) and the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP), respectively.

History

The NDSZ was formed on 17 May 1991 by intellectuals from both left–right political spectrum, including Sándor Sára, Barna Tálas, Sándor Püski, István Kukorelli and András Mezei. By 1993, in addition to Pozsgay, three other Members of Parliament; Kata Beke, a former Political Secretary of State of Education, Péter Szél and Zoltán Varga had joined the party, all of them from the MDF.[1]

The party wanted to retain the spirit of the Hungarian Round Table Talks and the Lakitelek meeting, the benefits of peaceful democratic change. The NDSZ had a third way ideology and advocated a varying synthesis of right-wing economic and left-wing social policies. For instance, the party supported leftist welfare measures (e.g. extension of primary health care and rejection of rapid capitalization), while also spoke out for the rights of ethnic Hungarian minorities in neighboring countries.[1]

Despite its well-known politicians and public figures, the NDSZ have failed to win any seats in the 1994 parliamentary election, receiving only 0.52 percent of the votes.[2] The NDSZ dissolved on 20 January 1996.[1]

Election results

National Assembly

Election year National Assembly Government
# of
overall votes		  % of
overall vote		 # of
overall seats won		 +/–
1994 28,075 0.52% (#14)
0 / 386
 extra-parliamentary

References

  1. 1 2 3 Vida 2011, p. 435.
  2. ↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 899. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

Sources

  • Vida, István (2011). "Nemzeti Demokrata Szövetség (NDSZ)". Magyarországi politikai pártok lexikona (1846–2010) [Encyclopedia of the Political Parties in Hungary (1846–2010)] (in Hungarian). Gondolat Kiadó. p. 435. ISBN 978-963-693-276-3.
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