Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party
The Független Kisgazda, Földmunkás - és Polgári PART ( German: Independent Party of Smallholders, the agricultural laborers and the bourgeoisie ) was in the period immediately after the Second World War, the Coalition Party of civil rights in Hungary, 1988, she was re-established. At the old hits ( 1945: 57 percent; under communist pressure 1947: 15.4 percent ), the new-old party in post-communist Hungary but was not able. During the 1990s, she received 10 percent of the vote and less, in the parliamentary elections held on 7 and 21 April 2002, she crashed to 0.8 percent and lost their seats in Parliament. A specific problem of political peasant movement in Hungary is the traditional sharp distinction between town and country.
Old FKGP before 1949
The FKGP was founded in 1930 by Ferenc Nagy and Zoltán Tildy represent the interests of small farmers. A central concern was also to improve the standard of living of agricultural workers and the urban middle class. Finally, the policy of FKGP aimed at a large-scale land reform, which should abolish the partly still existing large estates structures. In their ideological orientation, the FKGP was aligned Christian.
In the 1930s to the 1940s the FKGP was an opposition party in the context of (semi-) authoritarianism under Regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy.
1945, the FKGP three members of the democratic opposition government in Debrecen, which established the Soviet Union liberated from German occupation Hungarian territory.
In the parliamentary elections in November 1945, the FKGP won a clear majority of voters to support him, while Communists and Social Democrats had to settle each with 14 percent of the vote. The party leaders Zoltán Tildy then became Prime Minister. His successor in office was Ferenc Nagy. 1946, the Republic was proclaimed, the first President Zoltán Tildy was on February 2, 1946. Although the Communist Party represented only 17 Members of Parliament at this time, put the Soviet Union by a socialist government. When under massive pressure from the occupying power parliamentary elections in Hungary 1947 FKGP still reached 15.4 percent. Even at the time of almost complete power enforcement of the communist claim to power in 1947 FKGP could ask the Prime Minister Lajos Dinnyés initially. Previously, Prime Minister Nagy, President Tildy and Béla Varga, Chairman of the Parliament, their offices had been removed. Chairman of the FKGP was the pro-Communist István Dobi, who succeeded Dinnyés ' in turn became Prime Minister in 1948 and in 1949 joined the Party of the Hungarian working people.
1949 and 1956, resolution, and prohibition of FKGP
1949 FKGP was integrated into the People's Front, led by the Party of the Hungarian working people. The proclamation of the People's Republic after the general election of 1949 was followed by the ( informal ) Resolution of FKGP.
During the Hungarian uprising in October 1956, the FKGP lived briefly again. Tildy was admitted as a member FKGP in the People's Government of Imre Nagy. After the suppression of the uprising by Warsaw Pact troops the FKGP was officially banned in Hungary.
The FKGP since 1988
1988 FKGP was established again. In the first parliamentary elections since the end of communism, the FKGP received 11% of the vote and 44 seats in parliament so in April 1990. Thus the FKGP third strongest party was in this first Hungarian Parliament, after the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) and the Alliance of Free Democrats ( SZDSZ ). The FKGP was a member of the first cabinet of the government József Antall (MDF ), but came out in 1991 expropriated for political dispute over the return of land from the government. A prominent person of the party was József Torgyán.
Since 2002, the FKGP is no longer represented in the Hungarian parliament. Was also in the recent parliamentary elections in April 2006, the FKGP who cooperated well with the MIEP and Jobbik, no longer succeed.