The Compromise Independent Smallholders' Party (; KFKGP), was an agrarianist

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, after having its members left the

Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party The Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party (), known mostly by its acronym FKgP or its shortened form Independent Smallholders' Party (), is a political party in Budapest, Hungary. During its existence, the party participated ...

(FKGP).

History

The party was founded on 2 October 1993 in

Debrecen Debrecen ( ; ; ; ) is Hungary's cities of Hungary, second-largest city, after Budapest, the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain Regions of Hungary, region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar County. A city with county rights, it was the large ...

by gardener Sándor Cseh, who was replaced as vice-president and expelled from FKGP on 11 June 1992, following a failed coup attempt against party leader

József Torgyán József Torgyán (16 November 1932 − 22 January 2017) was a Hungarian lawyer and politician, chairman of the Independent Smallholders' Party (1991−2002), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (1998−2001) i ...

. The cooperation negotiations have broken down with the pro-government faction ''Group of 36 MPs'', who, as a result, also founded a separate party, named the

United Smallholders' Party The United Historical Smallholders and Civic Party (, ), known mostly by its acronym EKGP or its shortened form United Smallholders' Party (), was an agrarianist political party in Hungary, after having several MPs and cabinet members left the Ind ...

(EKGP). The KFKGP intended to unite the smallholders' group which opposed the leadership and influence of Torgyán in the agrarian politics. For the 1994 parliamentary election, the KFKGP set up two regional county lists ( Hajdú-Bihar and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg) and its seven individual candidates run in the election. The party received 0.11 percent of the votes and won no seats. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p. 899. Following that failure, the party gradually became defunct and dissolved in 2003, after it did not participate in the

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and 2002 national elections.

Election results

National Assembly

References

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* {{Hungarian political parties 1993 establishments in Hungary 2003 disestablishments in Hungary Agrarian parties in Hungary Defunct political parties in Hungary Political parties disestablished in 2003 Political parties established in 1993