Hungarian National Party ( hu, Magyar Nemzeti Párt, MNP, cs, Maďarská národní strana, sk, Maďarská národná strana) was one of political parties of

ethnic Hungarians Hungarians, also known as Magyars ( ; hu, magyarok ), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary () and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language. The Hungarian language belongs to the Uralic ...

in the First Republic of Czechoslovakia. The party was founded in February 1920 in Komárno under the name National Hungarian Smallholder and Farmer Party (''Országos Magyar Kisgazda és Földműves Párt''). From May 1925 it used the name National Hungarian Smallholders, Farmers and Small-business Party (''Országos Magyar Kisgazda, Földműves és Kisiparos Párt''), often abbreviated as Hungarian Smallholders Party (''Magyar Kisgazda Párt''). In 1925 the name was changed to Hungarian National Party (''Magyar Nemzeti Párt''). On June 21, 1936 the party merged with

Provincial Christian-Socialist Party The Provincial Christian-Socialist Party ( hu, Országos Keresztényszocialista Párt, OKszP; cs, Zemská křesťansko-socialistická strana; german: Provinziell-Christlich-Sozialistische Partei) was the main political party of ethnic Hungarians ...

(OKszP), another large Hungarian party, into the United Hungarian Party (''Egyesült Magyar Párt'', EMP) led by

János Esterházy Count János Eszterházy (; rarely sk, Ján Esterházi; March 14, 1901 – March 8, 1957) was a prominent ethnic Hungarian politician in inter-war Czechoslovakia and later in the First Slovak Republic. He was a member of the Czechoslovak Parl ...

as national executive chairman (until then leader of OKszP) and Andor Jaross as national chairman. The main objective of the party was initially an autonomy for ethnically Hungarian parts in

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

. This stance was later revised, and the party advocated a revision of the

Trianon Treaty The Treaty of Trianon (french: Traité de Trianon, hu, Trianoni békeszerződés, it, Trattato del Trianon) was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference and was signed in the Grand Trianon château in Versailles on 4 June 1920. It formal ...

.Marek 2000, 234. In the economic sphere, the party advocated

free market In economics, a free market is an economic system in which the prices of goods and services are determined by supply and demand expressed by sellers and buyers. Such markets, as modeled, operate without the intervention of government or any o ...

and called for government support for smallholders and peasants. After establishment of

Slovak State Slovak may refer to: * Something from, related to, or belonging to Slovakia (''Slovenská republika'') * Slovaks, a Western Slavic ethnic group * Slovak language, an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages * Slovak, Arka ...

in 1939, which had about 65,000 ethnic Hungarians, the party, under name Hungarian Party in Slovakia (''Szlovenskói Magyar Párt''), remained as one of few allowed political parties alongside the ruling

Hlinka's Slovak People's Party Hlinka's Slovak People's Party ( sk, Hlinkova slovenská ľudová strana), also known as the Slovak People's Party (, SĽS) or the Hlinka Party, was a far-right clerico-fascist political party with a strong Catholic fundamentalist and authorit ...

and German minority German Party. During Slovak National Uprising (1944) the party was banned on the area controlled by insurgents. The ban was reconfirmed after the end of

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