Szabolcs Köteles: Squeezed. The Merger of the Hungarian Parties in Slovakia in 1998 Cover Image

Köteles Szabolcs: Összepréselve. A szlovákiai magyar pártok 1998-as egyesülése
Szabolcs Köteles: Squeezed. The Merger of the Hungarian Parties in Slovakia in 1998

Author(s): Gábor Csanda
Subject(s): Political history, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet
Keywords: Slovakia; Hungarians; Hungarian parties; party unification; collaboration; oral history;leaders of Hungarian parties in Slovakia;chronology

Summary/Abstract: The author argues that the unification of the three Hungarian parties in Slovakia in 1998 was brought about by external pressure (the new autocratic electoral law): the parties would not have united on their own, and once the external pressure was removed, the agreement dissolved.

  • Issue Year: XXIV/2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 173-175
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Hungarian
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