The Modern Hungary Movement ( hu, Modern Magyarország Mozgalom), abbreviated to MoMa, was a
liberal conservative
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political party
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in
Hungary
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. Founded by former
Finance Minister
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Lajos Bokros
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MEP on 21 April 2013, MoMa stood for
free market
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,
liberal
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values and champions "individual freedom, the free market, and the freedom of private and intellectual property".
The party claimed to be modelled on the
Conservative Party
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in the United Kingdom.
History
MoMa decided not to participate in the
2014 parliamentary election, because "they do not want to weaken the cooperation of left-wing parties with separate candidates." Bokros criticized and resented that his party were excluded from the alliance. Later MoMa formally asked its supporters to vote
Unity
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in the 2014 general election, after receiving constitutional guarantees from the left-wing opposition.
The party planned to run in the
2014 European Parliament election, however its registration was refused by the National Election Office (NVI). As a result Bokros lost his European Parliament mandate. Bokros also ran for
Mayor of Budapest
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in the
2014 municipal election. On 29 September 2014, two other candidates, the independent György Magyar and candidate of the leftist opposition parties' Ferenc Falus withdrew from the election and supported Bokros. Bokros received 36.04% of the vote and came second after
István Tarlós
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. He was supported by
Together
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, the
Democratic Coalition and the Budapest branch of the
Hungarian Socialist Party.
In September 2017, the MoMa made an electoral coalition with the Democratic Coalition (DK) for the
2018 parliamentary election. In the same time Bokros announced his "500 days programme" which contained the short-lived inevitable cooperation of the "democratic opposition parties" after the victory to "restore democracy" and "break down the
Orbán regime". Bokros argued another by-election is required after the successful restoration. In January 2018, Bokros announced the DK has not kept its promise and rejected the agreement; as a result the MoMa aimed to participate in the election individually. DK issued a statement saying, Bokros refused their "fair offer" to provide a single mandate for his party with "not measurable support". While Bokros and some others withdrew their candidacy in favor of the parliamentary opposition, ten candidates of the MoMa ran in the 2018 national election, thus the party was not able to set a national list. They altogether obtained 617 votes.
Lajos Bokros announced the disestablishment of the Modern Hungary Movement on 23 April 2019 with effect from 1 May. He said the delegation members decided to dissolve the party on their last meeting on 15 March. Bokros argued "he main reason for this is that we no longer see the point of serving as a scenario for the weak opposition activity that, under the pressure of arbitrariness, had mostly degenerated into the "
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Election results
For the Hungarian Parliament:
Footnotes
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