Notes and Comments: The Reasons for the Defeat of the Right in Hungary
Notes and Comments: The Reasons for the Defeat of the Right in Hungary
Author(s): András KörösényiContributor(s): Eszter Nadin (Translator), Johnathan Sunley (Translator)
Subject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Hungary; 1994 elections; defeat of the right; successor of Hungarian Socialist party; success of the left-wing parties;
Summary/Abstract: The 1994 elections have fundamentally reshaped the landscape of Hungarian politics. While in 1990 the parties of the governing coalition garnered 43 percent of the popular vote, in 1994 the same parties won only 28 percent. The center-right coalition was defeated, but the real winners of the election were not the liberal parties-which, compared with 1990, suffered a total drop in their vote of about four percent, together with a sharper fall in their combined number of seats-but the left, namely the successor to the onetime party-state: the Hungarian Socialist party (MSzP). The MSzP was the only parliamentary party that managed to increase-indeed, to multiply- its supporters and its seats. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 09/1995
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 179-194
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
