Social Democratic Party (Hungary)

The Hungarian Social Democratic Party, also known as the "historical" Social Democratic Party ( Hungarian: " Történelmi " Szociáldemokrata Part, SZDP ), is a political party in the Republic of Hungary. The party tries to maintain social democracy and democratic socialism.

It was created in 1989 by a split in the same year (again), founded Hungarian Socialist Party ( MSZDP ). The historic wing of the Hungarian social democracy was the ex - communist Hungarian Socialist Party and also ex - communist members of the re-founded the Social Democratic Party was very critical and skeptical. Both the one than the other claim to the same successorship, namely that of the Social Democratic Party, which belonged from 1945 to 1948 the Hungarian coalition government, then with the Communist Party was forced pooled and during the uprising in 1956 worked again. Under the leadership of Anna Kethly, Gyula Keleman and Joseph Fischer, the MSZDP had involved in the Provisional Government of Imre Nagy. For the first time after many years, the party newspaper " Népszava " could ( " The People's Voice ") are published independently again. After the bloody suppression of the Hungarian revolution, the party disappeared because of reprisals and many party leaders fled into exile.

While the Social Democratic organization in 1989 first founded a small party today who had worked closely with the Hungarian Socialist Party and a common list of some MPs in the Hungarian Parliament, this collaboration rejects the "historical" SZDP decisively and has in recent years rather the populist right-wing Fidesz been closer.

First, a very small splinter group, the party won in 1997 in a sense more important than her a lot of people who left the MSZDP joined in 1997. They turned against the centralized management style of László Kapolyi who had the MSZDP out in a close cooperation with the ex-communists. This group included some social democratic Altpolitiker the post-war period 1945-1948 and the Government of Imre Nagy, such as Róbert Gábor Sándor Bácskai and Ernő Nagy.

In the elections, the party has remained marginal, but still has a limited success achieved at local level. As belonged Mátyás Szurös 2003 to 2005 the party leadership, the party tended to populism and to the Fidesz. The current party leader is Tibor Sztankovánzki.

Ideologically the party is particularly the British democratic socialism close. It is against wholesale privatization and neoliberalism. Anna Kethly is one of the most important people in the historical tradition of this party.

The traditional strongholds of the party or the Hungarian social democracy are the industrial areas of Budapest, Óbuda in particular, Pesterzsébet and Angyalfold.