The Human Chain for Hungary ( hu, Élőlánc Magyarországért), or simply Human Chain, is a
green
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political party in
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
, founded in October 2005.
History
The Human Chain was founded by 52 environmentalist and civil activists under the initiative of writer and Védegylet founder András Lányi on 8 October 2005. The party elected a 5-member collective leadership (András Lányi, agrarian engineer Éva Ács, architect Attila Ertsey, economist Péter Kajner and essayist István Orosz). The Védegylet and the
Duna Kör Duna Kör ( en, Danube Circle) is a Hungarian environmental organization founded in 1984 as a protest body to prevent the construction of the Gabčíkovo – Nagymaros Dams. Opponents of the dam argued that it would create an environmental disaster ...
criticized the formation of the new party, considering that unseasonable. Since its foundation, the Human Chain is closely linked to the Kishantos Rural Development Center which had established an ecological model farm in the 1990s in
Hantos
Hantos is a village in Fejér county, Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the e ...
,
Fejér County
Fejér ( hu, Fejér megye, ) is an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in Central Hungary. It lies on the west bank of the river Danube and nearly touches the eastern shore of Lake Balaton. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties V ...
. The party accepted its programme there on 10 December 2005, representing environmental policy,
direct democracy
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and the right to self-determination of communities. The Human Chain held a protest on 28 January 2006 in front of the
Hungarian Parliament Building
The Hungarian Parliament Building ( hu, Országház , which translates to "House of the Country" or "House of the Nation"), also known as the Parliament of Budapest after its location, is the seat of the National Assembly of Hungary, a notable l ...
, where protested against the cultivation and marketing of
GM crop
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Companies
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** Motors Liquidation Company, the US automobile manufacturing company known as General Motors Corporation from 1916 to 2009
* ...
s, with the
human chain form of demonstration.
In the
2006 parliamentary election, the party's four candidates ran in individual constituencies, receiving 0.04 percent of the votes.
[ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p. 899. ] During the
2006 local elections, one politician Áron Földi was elected to the representative body in
Abony
Abony (german: Wabing) is a town in Pest County, Hungary.
Geography
Abony is a town in the south-east of , between the Danube and Tisza rivers. It is from Cegléd and from Budapest, at an elevation of . The area is on the River Tisza's wide ...
. The Human Chain gathered 492,000 signatures against the social security reform by the second half of 2008. The party did not participate in the
2010 parliamentary election.
During the
Second Orbán Government
The second government of Viktor Orbán or the Government of National Cooperation (in Hungarian language, Hungarian: ''A Nemzeti Együttműködés Kormánya'') was the Government of Hungary from 29 May 2010 to 6 June 2014. Orbán formed his second ...
, new controversial land law was developed and passed on 21 June 2013. According to the law, public lands will be privatized, the tenant Kishantos ecological model farm also came under threat. Following the law's adoption,
Fidesz
Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (; hu, Fidesz – Magyar Polgári Szövetség) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Hungary, led by Viktor Orbán.
It was formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young ...
politician
József Ángyán
József Ángyán (born September 20, 1952) is a Hungarian agriculture engineer, professor and politician who served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Rural Development from June 2, 2010 to February 5, 2012. He was a member of the National A ...
left his party. He called attention to abuses among state land lease tenders, which were favored for the Fidesz close-ally entrepreneurs and "oligarchs", according to him. The tenders distributed the Kishantos farm among several new shareholders. Several international and domestic organizations, including
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, immigrant environmental activists from the United States. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth t ...
protested against the government's method.
The Human Chain could run only 9 candidates in the
2014 parliamentary election. They received 0.07 percent of the votes and gained no seats.
Election results
National Assembly
References
Sources
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External links
Official homepage
{{Hungarian political parties
Green political parties in Hungary
Political parties established in 2005
2005 establishments in Hungary