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Viktor Szigetvári
Viktor Szigetvári (Szigetvári Viktor, born 16 October 1978 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician, political scientist and campaign strategist, who served as leader of the Together 2014, Együtt party from 2013 to 2017. Career Szigetvári finished his secondary studies at the Piarist Grammar School in Budapest. Following that he attended the ELTE Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), where he studied philosophy and political science. Obtaining a degree in 2000, he wrote his thesis with the title of "''Tony Blair és az Új Munkáspárt''" ("Tony Blair and the New Labour Party (UK), Labour Party") on the subject of Blair's New Labour movement, his consultant was scholar and politician Tibor Navracsics. Socialist Party In 2001, he became associate of Ron Werber, who served as campaign manager of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) since the early 2000s, and was known for his negative campaigning methods in the 2002 Hungarian parl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Together (Hungary)
Together (, ), officially Together – Party for a New Era (), formerly also known as Together 2014 (), was a Social liberalism, social-liberal List of political parties in Hungary, political party in Hungary formed on 26 October 2012 for the 2014 Hungarian parliamentary election by Gordon Bajnai, the former Prime Minister of Hungary, to contest Viktor Orbán's government. Together was founded as a coalition of left-wing and liberal political movements and civil organizations that transformed itself into a party in March 2013. The party had formed an electoral alliance with the Dialogue for Hungary (PM) and they won together four seats in the Hungarian Parliament, national assembly and one seat in the European Parliament in 2014. Together dissolved after its poor performance in the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, 2018 parliamentary election. Members During its foundation, the coalition consisted of three civil society organizations: * Patriotism and Progress Association led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Péter Medgyessy
Péter Medgyessy (; born 19 October 1942) is a retired Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 27 May 2002 to 29 September 2004. On 25 August 2004, he resigned over disputes with coalition partner Alliance of Free Democrats, but remained as acting prime minister for a 30-day period as required by the Constitution, and a few additional days until his successor Ferenc Gyurcsány was confirmed by the National Assembly. Family and studies Medgyessy was born into an old Transylvanian noble family in Budapest on 19 October 1942. An ancestor of the family, Miklós Medgyessy de Medgyes, worked as a penman for Prince Gabriel Bethlen in the 17th century. Medgyessy's father, Béla Medgyessy, was a recorder in the General Assembly of Cluj until the Second Vienna Award, when Hungary reassigned the territory of Northern Transylvania from the Kingdom of Romania. The family moved to Budapest, where Béla worked for the Ministry of Domestic Trade. Medgyessy's mother Iboly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Threshold
The electoral threshold, or election threshold, is the minimum share of votes that a candidate or political party requires before they become entitled to representation or additional seats in a legislature. This limit can operate in various ways; for example, in party-list proportional representation systems where an electoral threshold requires that a party must receive a specified minimum percentage of votes (e.g. 5%), either nationally or in a particular electoral district, to obtain seats in the legislature. In single transferable voting, the election threshold is called the quota, and it is possible to achieve it by receiving first-choice votes alone or by a combination of first-choice votes and votes transferred from other candidates based on lower preferences. In mixed-member-proportional (MMP) systems, the election threshold determines which parties are eligible for top-up seats in the legislative chamber. Some MMP systems still allow a party to retain the seats the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Hungarian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 8 April 2018. The elections were the second since the adoption of a new constitution, which came into force on 1 January 2012. The result was a victory for the Fidesz– KDNP alliance, preserving its two-thirds majority, with Viktor Orbán remaining Prime Minister. Orbán and Fidesz campaigned primarily on the issues of immigration and foreign meddling, and the election was seen as a victory for right-wing populism in Europe. Background At the previous parliamentary election, in April 2014, the incumbent government — composed of Fidesz and its satellite ally the KDNP — was able to achieve a two-thirds majority for the second consecutive time with 44.87 percent of the votes. According to their critics, this overwhelming proportion was only because of the new election law (mostly due to the introduction of compensation votes also for the individual winners) which was adopted by the ruling coalition in 2011. In early 2015, howeve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levente Pápa
Levente Pápa (born 9 May 1975 in Tata, Hungary) is a Hungarian economist and politician, former member and Chief Economist of Together party, board member between July 2014 and September 2016. Starting August 2014 he was also the Chair of the Board of the András Váradi Foundation. Education He had acquired his secondary school leaving certificate in 1993 at the József Eötvös High School in Tata, specialized in natural sciences. He started his university studies on a Physics program at the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences and changed later to the University of Economics of Budapest where he graduated with distinction from the Finance program as a Republic Scholarship recipient in 2004. In his university years, he was member of the Rajk László College for Advanced Studies from 1999 to 2004, also being a board member of the College for two years. Member of the Hungarian Association of Economists, he published papers titled ''Fiscal Sustainability'' in 2008 and ''Im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Péter Kónya
Péter Kónya (born 19 February 1969) is a Hungarian soldier, journalist, trade unionist and politician, who was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 2014 to 2018. As leader of the Hungarian Solidarity Movement, he was a founding member of the Together party until he quit in October 2015. Biography Kónya was born in Miskolc on 19 February 1969. He finished his secondary studies at the I. István Secondary Grammar School in Budapest in 1987. He attended the Lviv Polytechnic State University in the Soviet Union, then Ukraine from 1987 to 1991 and from 1993 to 1994, where he earned a degree of military journalist in 1994. Simultaneously, he finished the school of the Association of Hungarian Journalists (MÚOSZ) in 1992. He was a career soldier since 1987, he was inaugurated army officer in 1991; he attended the battalion command course of the Lajos Kossuth Military College in 1992. During his disarmament in 2012, he was a lieutenant-colonel. He edited military weekly ''Magyar Honvéd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heti Világgazdaság
HVG (formerly called ''Heti Világgazdaság''; , ) has been Hungary’s leading economic and political weekly both in terms of circulation and readership since it was founded in 1979. It is closely modeled on ''The Economist'' in style and content. As a regular source of news and information, ''HVG'' has a significant influence on business decision makers and other stakeholder groups. Its editorial office is in Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul .... ''HVG'' provides information about domestic and international politics, economy and society. ''HVG'' has an online news portal, which is available on all platforms: mobile, tablet, android and iOS applications. With its news and analyses, HVG reaches more than 1.5 million people every week on its various print an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Hungarian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 11 and 25 April 2010 to elect the members of the National Assembly. They were the sixth free elections since the end of the communist era. 386 Members of Parliament (MPs) were elected in a combined system of party lists and electoral constituencies. Electoral law in Hungary requires candidates to gather 500 signatures from citizens supporting their candidacy. In the first round of the elections, the conservative party Fidesz won the absolute majority of seats, enough to form a government on its own. In the second round, the alliance of Fidesz and the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) won enough seats to achieve a two-thirds majority required to modify major laws and the country's constitution. Background Fidesz's landslide victory was a result of massive dissatisfaction with the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP), which had been in government since 2002. One event that provoked an especially strong backlash was the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Népszabadság
''Népszabadság'' (; ) was a major Hungarian newspaper which was formerly the official press organ of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party during the Hungarian People's Republic. Before its closure, ''Népszabadság'' was considered the '' de facto'' newspaper of record for Hungary. History and profile ''Népszabadság'' was founded on 2 November 1956 during the Hungarian Revolution as successor of '' Szabad Nép'' (Hungarian: ''Free People'') which was established in 1942 as the central organ of the dissolved Hungarian Working People's Party. ''Népszabadság'' was also the organ of the party. At the beginning of the 1990s, following the collapse of the communist regime, the paper was privatized and the owners became Bertelsmann AG Germany (50%), the Free Press Foundation (''Szabad Sajtó Alapítvány'' in Hungarian), a foundation of the Socialist Party ( MSZP) (26%), the First Hungarian Investment Fund (16.8%), and the Editorial Staff Association (6%). In 2005, the pap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bajnai Government
The government of Gordon Bajnai was the government of Hungary between 14 April 2009 and 29 May 2010. Gordon Bajnai formed a minority government after the resignation of Ferenc Gyurcsány. The cabinet was supported externally by the parliamentary group of the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ). List of political parties in Hungary, Coalition members: and References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bajnai Cabinets Hungarian governments 2009 establishments in Hungary 2010 disestablishments in Hungary Cabinets established in 2009 Cabinets disestablished in 2010 Members of the Bajnai Government, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Think Tank
A think tank, or public policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture. Most think tanks are non-governmental organizations, but some are semi-autonomous agencies within a government, and some are associated with particular political parties, businesses, or the military. Think tanks are often funded by individual donations, with many also accepting government grants. Think tanks publish articles and studies, and sometimes draft legislation on particular matters of policy or society. This information is then used by governments, businesses, media organizations, social movements, or other interest groups. Think tanks range from those associated with highly academic or scholarly activities to those that are overtly ideological and pushing for particular policies, with a wide range among them in terms of the quality of their research. Later gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Hungarian Local Elections
Local elections took place in Hungary on 1 October 2006 amidst a period of protests and demonstrations against the government of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány. In many cities, demonstrators urged people not to vote for the MSZP candidate at the elections, and Fidesz made heavy use of the fact that Gyurcsány had admitted lying in its campaign leaflets and phone calls. In response, Gyurcsány insisted in a speech he held in Szeged on 15 September that the local elections would have no bearing on his party staying in power, and "those who don't want a war between the government and the city should know whom to vote for". Before the elections, the polling firm Szonda Ipsos had predicted a victory for candidates of the main opposition party Fidesz – 34% of the people asked said they would vote for Fidesz, while only 22% voiced a preference for the MSZP. The opinion poll showed Fidesz with a clear lead in towns having fewer than 10,000 inhabitants (Fidesz 38%, MSZP 19%) and a nar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
