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14-770: The main goal of the party is to ensure the parliamentary representation of Hungarians in Slovakia and to use it as a tool for actions so that people from the Hungarian community are equal citizens of a democratic Slovakia. The party was founded in February 2019 by Zsolt Simon, a non-attached member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, who resigned from the Most–Híd party in 2016 due to its entry into

28-411: A change in the territorial and legal division of the country (counties, districts). The Hungarian Forum wants to push for the southern regions to receive an average amount of public investment and expenditure, from infrastructure development, through the support of industrial parks and private investment, to the promotion of Hungarian cultural life. In the cultural field, it requires the unrestricted use of

42-880: Is an inter-ethnic political party in Slovakia . Its programme calls for greater cooperation between the country's Hungarian minority and ethnic Slovak majority . It was one of four parties in the Fico III government coalition , but lost all its seats in the National Council in the 2020 Slovak parliamentary election . The party was formed in June 2009 by dissidents from the Party of the Hungarian Coalition (SMK-MKP), which they accused of being too nationalistic . Most–Híd seeks to offer an alternative to ethnic politics by promoting inter-ethnic cooperation. Led by

56-725: Is no joint coalition candidacy of all five parties, the Hungarian Forum wants to run with the SMK and the Co-operation under the name Hungarian Community Co-operation . In November 2019, they announced that they were preparing a three-party coalition with the SMK and the MKÖ-MKS. The party has as its priorities a change in the preamble of the Constitution of Slovakia , a change in the financing of local governments, as well as

70-484: The Hungarian Coalition. This commitment was cemented by electing Rudolf Chmel , an ethnic Slovak , as one of the party's vice presidents representing. The party sought to represent the interests of the ethnic Hungarians while working together with the Slovaks. According to Peter Huncik about 60 to 65 percent members were Hungarians, while 35 to 40 were Slovaks. This programme and political ideology manifested itself in

84-478: The Hungarian mother tongue, both verbally and in writing, in the regions where the minority lives, and in official relations its equivalence with the official Slovak language. Presidency currently up to 6 November 2019: Most%E2%80%93H%C3%ADd Most–Híd 2023 ( Slovak pronunciation: [ˈmɔst ˈɦiːt] , Hungarian: [ˈmost ˈhiːd] ; from the Slovak and Hungarian words for "bridge")

98-536: The SMK-MKP's former chairman Béla Bugár , the party claimed to have an electorate that is two-thirds ethnic Hungarian and one-third ethnic Slovak. The party remerged with SMK-MKP into a smaller Hungarian minority party (MKÖ-MKS) in late 2021 to form the Alliance , before leaving and joining the party The Blues – European Slovakia , which was named Modrí, Most–Híd for the parliamentary election in 2023 . The party

112-452: The election, however they left the united party again over a dispute about allowing former OĽaNO MP György Gyimesi on the list. They regained their status as a party after Hungarian Christian Democratic Alliance (MKDA-MKDSZ), established in 2004, renamed themselves. On 18 May 2023, the Most–Híd party (under the name Most-Híd 2023) announced cooperation with The Blues party. On 25 May 2023,

126-572: The governing coalition with the Smer-SD and SNS parties. Prior to the 2020 elections, the party intensively negotiated a joint list of candidates with the remaining four parties of the Hungarian minority ( SMK-MKP , MOST-HÍD , MKDA-MKDSZ and Spolupatričnosť ), but by the end of October 2019 the parties had not reached an agreement. The problem is a different view of the possibility of cooperation with current government parties. The Hungarian Forum refuses to cooperate with SMER, SNS and ĽSNS . If there

140-457: The party first taking part in the centre-right Radičová-government between 2010 and 2012, and also cooperating with the centre-left Fico government in minority issues in the next electoral cycle. Polls from mid-September 2009 gave Most–Híd between 3 and 5.6 percent of the vote. An opinion poll by Focus in May 2010 gave Most–Híd 5.6% of the vote. In the 2010 election , the party received 8.12% of

154-464: The party received 6.89% of the popular vote in the 2012 elections , winning 13 seats. As in 2010, SMK-MKP failed to reach the required threshold, leaving Most–Híd as the only parliamentary party representing the interest of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia. In the 2014 European elections , Most–Híd came in eighth place nationally, receiving 5.83% of the vote and electing 1 MEP . In the 2016 Slovak parliamentary election , Most–Híd received 6.50% of

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168-681: The popular vote, and thus won fourteen seats in the National Council. This, however, included four seats for Civic Conservative Party politicians running within the party's list of candidates. At the same time, Most–Híd's main rival, SMK-MKP, fell short of the 5% threshold and thus did not gain any seats. In 2010, Most–Híd entered the four-party government of Iveta Radičová , and sought to advance its agenda, including in language rights, citizenship, agriculture and environmental policy. The government, however, turned out to be unstable and finally collapsed during October 2011, leading to snap elections. After months of steady polling between 6 and 9 percents,

182-406: The vote – 11 seats – and joined Fico's Third Cabinet as a coalition partner. In the 2019 European election , Most–Híd fell to 2.59% and behind their rival SMK-MKP losing their only MEP. A year later in the 2020 parliamentary election , Most–Híd only got 2.05% losing their representation in parliament. In 2021 it merged with SMK-MKP into MKÖ-MKS to form Alliance . In 2023, a few months before

196-510: Was established on 30 June 2009 by Béla Bugár , Gábor Gál, László A. Nagy (former leader of the MPP/MOS ), Tibor Bastrnák and Zsolt Simon , who had previously left the Party of the Hungarian Coalition (SMK-MKP). Béla Bugár, who had also been the president of his former party for 10 years, was elected its president. It was established as an inter-ethnic Hungarian-Slovak alternative to the Party of

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