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Party of Independence and '48
Országos Függetlenségi és Kossuth Párt
Last leaderVince Nagy
FoundedJanuary 25, 1918 (1918-01-25)
DissolvedApril 13, 1945 (1945-04-13)
HeadquartersBudapest, Kingdom of Hungary
IdeologyConservatism
Political positionRight-wing
International affiliationNone
Colours  Dark red

The National Independence Kossuth Party (Template:Lang-hu), known as the Party of Independence and '48 for much of its existence, was a political party in Hungary.

History

The Party of Independence and '48 was established in 1881 by a merger of the Independence Party and the Party of '48.[1] Lajos Kossuth was its spiritual leader until he died in 1894, and the party was referred to as the "Kossuth Party" thereafter.[1] From the 1896 elections onwards, it was the main opposition to the ruling Liberal Party. It won the 1905 and 1906 elections, but it lost the 1910 elections to the National Party of Work.

By this time the party was beginning to split into factions. Ferenc Kossuth and Albert Apponyi led a right-wing grouping that supported an alliance with Germany, whilst Gyula Justh and later Mihály Károlyi led a left-wing faction that opposed working with Germany. In 1916 the party split when Károlyi left to establish the United Party of Independence and '48, with Károlyi becoming Prime Minister in 1918. Following World War I, the party was severely weakened. It failed to win a seat in the 1920 elections. It ran in the 1922 elections as the Independence and '48 Kossuth Party, winning one seat, which it retained in the 1926 elections.[2]

By 1931 the party had adopted its final name. The elections that year saw it lose its single seat. In the 1935 elections it won a single seat, running on a joint list with the National Radical Party in one multi-member constituency.[3][4] The party did not contest the 1939 elections, and was dissolved on 13 April 1945 when it merged into the Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party.

References

  1. ^ a b Vincent E McHale (1983) Political parties of Europe, Greenwood Press, p509 ISBN 0-313-23804-9
  2. ^ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p929 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  3. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p920
  4. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p930