The Pensioners' Party (; NYUP), was a minor

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between 1990 and 2007.

History

It was founded by the National Association of Pensioners' Associations within the

Patriotic People's Front The Patriotic People's Front () was a Hungarian political resistance movement during World War II which later became an alliance of political parties in the Hungarian People's Republic. In the latter role, it was dominated by the Communist Party ...

(HNF) under the name Party of Generations, Party of Pensioners and Families () in January 1990. During its inaugural meeting, jurist Vilmos Michaletzky was elected leader of the party. The NYUP worked for the interests of

pensioner A pensioner is a person who receives a pension, most commonly because of retirement from the workforce. This is a term typically used in the United Kingdom (along with OAP, initialism of old-age pensioner), Ireland and Australia where someone of p ...

s, and the party mainly focuses on issues related to health care, taxes and pensioners' issues. The party also had a

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ideology. The NYUP supported the ideas of family tax benefit and housing subsidies. Only one candidate of the party run in the 1990 parliamentary election, who received 0.04 percent of the individual votes, failing to obtain a mandate. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p. 899. However pharmacist and MP Imre Barcza, who had left the

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(SZDSZ) caucus earlier, joined the NYUP in October 1992, providing parliamentary representation for the small party. Before the 1994 parliamentary election, the NYUP negotiated on electoral cooperation with the governing

Hungarian Democratic Forum The Hungarian Democratic Forum (, , MDF) was a centre-right political party in Hungary. It had a Hungarian nationalist, national-conservative, Christian-democratic ideology. The party was represented continuously in the National Assembly from t ...

(MDF). Despite this the party's sole candidate gained only 0.02 percentage. For the 1998 parliamentary election, it joined the electoral alliance Union for Hungary, the NYUP had four candidates on the alliances' 80-member national list, but they did not reach the 5%

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. The NYUP strongly criticized the electoral system which was not favorable for extra-parliamentary parties. Their petition was rejected by the

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. Before the 2002 parliamentary election, Michaletzky began to negotiate with the internal conflict-ridden Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) to ensure a successful cooperation, however the NYUP withdrawn when the KDNP entered a coalition with the

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(MSZDP). Thus the party did not participate in the election. The NYUP joined the Hungarian National Alliance (MNSZ) which formed to contest the

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. On 27 April 2007, the NYUP transformed itself into a civil organization, called Family Protectional Association of Pensioners (NYCSE).

Election results

National Assembly

European Parliament

References

Sources

* {{Hungarian political parties Pensioners' parties Political parties established in 1990 Political parties disestablished in 2007 1990 establishments in Hungary 2007 disestablishments in Hungary