The Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement ( hu, Magyar Kereszténydemokrata Mozgalom, sk, Maďarské kresťanskodemokratické hnutie, MKDM) was a political party in

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and

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 ...

between 1990 and 1998. The party was led by

Béla Bugár Béla Bugár (born 7 July 1958) is a Slovak politician of Hungarian ethnicity. He was a member of the Slovak parliament from 1992 to 2020, briefly serving as its acting Speaker in 2006. He was the former leader of the political party Most–H ...

History

The party was in 1990, and allied with Coexistence to take part in the general elections that year. In the

elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold Public administration, public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative ...

to the Czechoslovakian Federal Assembly the two parties won five seats in the Chamber of the People and seven in the Chamber of the Nations. In the

to the National Council of

the alliance won 14 seats. The parties maintained their alliance for the 1992 elections, maintaining the same number of seats in the Federal Assembly and the

Slovak National Council The Slovak National Council ( sk, Slovenská národná rada (SNR)) was an organisation that was formed at various times in the 19th and 20th centuries to act as the highest representative of the Slovak nation. It originated in the mid-19th century ...

. In 1994 the party allied with Coexistence and the Hungarian Civic Party to form the

Hungarian Coalition The Hungarian Coalition ( hu, Magyar Koalíció (MK); sr, Мађарска Коалиција (МК), ''Mađarska Koalicija'' (MK)) was a political coalition composed of 3 ethnic Hungarian political parties in Serbia: the Alliance of Vojvodina Hu ...

. In the elections that year the coalition won seventeen seats (seven of which were MKDM members), making it the third largest party in the National Council. The three parties officially merged into the

Party of the Hungarian Coalition The Party of the Hungarian Community ( hu, Magyar Közösség Pártja, sk, Strana maďarskej komunity; SMK-MKP), formerly known as Party of the Hungarian Coalition ( hu, Magyar Koalíció Pártja, sk, Strana maďarskej koalície), was a politi ...

on 18 March 1998.Hungarians in the Slovak Government
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References

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