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The Civic Freedom Party ( hu, Polgári Szabadságpárt) was one of the two inter-war
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History

The party was founded in 1921 by
Károly Rassay Károly is a very common Hungarian male given name. It is also sometimes found as a Hungarian surname. The origin of this name is the Turkic languages, Turkic Karul, which means hawk. Nowadays Károly is considered the equivalent of English Karl or ...
as the Independent Party of Smallholders, Workers and Citizens (, FKFPP) as an attempt to mobilize voters for
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outside the cities. In the 1922 elections it ran alone, winning five seats, Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p908 and also in alliance with the National Democratic Party, with the joint list winning seven seats. For the
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it ran in alliance with the National Democratic Party under the name "United Left", winning nine seats.Nohlen & Stöver, p929 Rassay reconstituted the party in 1930 as the National Liberal Party (),Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p507 as an attempt to build an alternative to the conservative government. In the 1931 elections it ran as the "Unified Liberal Democratic Party, winning four seats. The 1935 elections saw it run in alliance with the National Democratic Party again, this time under the name "Liberal and Democratic Opposition", with the alliance winning seven seats. In the 1939 elections the party, now renamed the Civic Freedom Party, ran alone, winning five seats. In 1944 it was dissolved by the
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. It was reformed as the Civic Democratic Party in 1945.


See also

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References

{{reflist Liberal parties in Hungary Hungary 1921 Defunct political parties in Hungary Political parties established in 1921 Political parties disestablished in 1944 1921 establishments in Hungary 1944 disestablishments in Hungary