civic freedom party

The Civic Freedom Party (Hungarian: Polgri Szabadsgprt) was the last name of one of the two interbellum liberal parties in Hungary. The party was founded in 1921 by Kroly Rassay as the Independence Party of Smallholders, Workers and Citizens (Fggetlensgi Kisgazda Fldműves s Polgri Prt, FKFPP) as an attempt to mobilize voters for liberalism outside the cities. Shortly after its foundation it won 3.6 % of the popular vote and 8 seats in parliament. It merged in 1926 with the Nemzeti Demokrata Prt (National Democratic Party) into the Independent National Democratic Party (Fggetlen Nemzeti Demokrata Prt). The new party won 4.0 % of the vote and 9 seats in the 1926 elections. Rassay reconstitutes the separate party in 1928 as the National Liberal Party (Nemzeti Szabadelvű Prt). It was an attempt to build an alternative for the conservative government. The party won in 1931 only 5 seats and in 1935 7 seats. Just before or after the elections the party is renamed into the Civic Freedom Party. It wins in 1939 5 seats, but it cannot survive the radicalisation of Hungary during the second World War. In 1944 the party dissolves itself.

Civic Freedom Party

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