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The '''Fidesz &ndash; Hungarian Civic Union''' (in [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]]: ''Fidesz &ndash; Magyar Polgári Szövetség'') is a large centre-right [[Conservatism|conservative]] and  [[Christian Democracy|Christian Democratic]]<ref>http://www.cdp.org.au/fed/links.asp</ref> [[political party]] in [[Hungary]]. It has won 164 seats, or 42,49% of the total mandates (386) in a party-coalition with the Hungarian [[Christian Democratic People's Party (Hungary)|Christian Democratic People's Party]], and became the largest opposition party in [[Hungary]]. Fidesz is also a member of the [[European People's Party]].
#REDIRECT [[Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union]]
 
==History==
It was founded in 1988, named simply Fidesz ('''''Fi'''atal '''D'''emokraták '''Sz'''övetsége'', Alliance of Young Democrats), originally as a youthful [[libertarian]], [[anticommunism|anticommunist]] party. Fidesz was founded by young democrats, mainly students, who were persecuted by the communist party and had to meet in small, clandestine groups. The movement became a major force in many areas of modern Hungarian history, engaging itself on every level in the development of a democratic system, its members being active as guardians of fundamental human rights.
 
In 1989 Fidesz won the [[Rafto Prize]]. The Hungarian youth opposition movement was represented by one of its leaders, Dr [[Péter Molnár]], who became a Member of Parliament in Hungary.
 
After its disappointing result in the 1994 election, Fidesz changed its political position from [[liberalism|liberal]] to [[conservativism|conservative]]. In 1995, it added "Hungarian Civic Party" (''Magyar Polgári Párt'') to its shortened name. The conservative turn caused a severe split in the membership. Péter Molnár left the party, as well as [[Gábor Fodor]] and [[Klára Ungár]], who joined the liberal [[Alliance of Free Democrats]].
 
Fidesz gained power in 1998 under leader and [[List of Prime Ministers of Hungary|Prime Minister]] [[Viktor Orbán]], who governed Hungary in coalition with the smaller [[Hungarian Democratic Forum]] and the [[Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party]].
 
It narrowly lost the [[Hungarian parliamentary election, 2002|2002 elections]] to the [[Hungarian Socialist Party]], by 41.07% to the Socialists' 42.05%.  Fidesz had 169 members of the [[Hungarian National Assembly]], out of a total of 386.  Following this defeat, the local elections in October saw huge Fidesz losses.
 
In the spring of 2003, Fidesz took its current name, "Fidesz &ndash; Hungarian Civic Union".
 
It was the most successful party in the [[European Parliament Election, 2004 (Hungary)|2004 European Parliamentary Elections]], gaining 47.4% of the vote and electing 12 [[Member of the European Parliament|MEPs]] including [[Lívia Járóka]], the second [[Roma (people)|Roma]] [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]].
 
In 2005 Fidesz and the Christian [[Christian Democratic People's Party (Hungary)|KDNP]] formed an alliance for the [[Hungarian parliamentary election, 2006|2006 elections]]. At these elections this alliance was defeated, despite winning 42.0% of the list votes and 164 representatives out of 386 in [[National Assembly of Hungary|Parliament]].
 
On October 1, 2006, Fidesz won the local elections, which served to weaken the Socialist Party's (MSZP) tenuous grip on power. According to results Fidesz won 15 of 23 mayoralties in Hungary's largest cities&ndash;although its candidate narrowly lost the city of [[Budapest]] to long time mayor (since 1990), and member of the liberal [[Alliance of Free Democrats]] (SZDSZ), [[Gábor Demszky]], but won the majorities in 18 out of 19 county assemblies.
==Electorial results==
===Parlamentary elections===
{| class="wikitable"
!style="background:#CCDDEE; width: 5em"  | Elections
!style="width: 5em; background:#CCDDEE;" | Number of votes<br>(1st round)
!style="width: 5em; background:#CCDDEE;" | Proportion of votes<br>(1st round)
!style="width: 5em; background:#CCDDEE;" | Number of votes<br>(2nd round)
!style="width: 5em; background:#CCDDEE;" | Proportion of votes<br>(2nd round)
!style="width: 5em; background:#CCDDEE;" | Number of MPs (out of 386)
!style="width: 5em; background:#CCDDEE;" | Proportion of MPs
!style="width: 8em; background:#CCDDEE;" | Parlamentary role
|-
| style="text-align:center" |1990
| style="text-align:center" |439 481
| style="text-align:center" |8.95%
| style="text-align:center" |63 064*
| style="text-align:center" |1.85%*
| style="text-align:center" |21
| style="text-align:center" |5.44%
|align=center style="background: #ffdddd" |opposition
|-
| style="text-align:center" |1994
| style="text-align:center" |379 295
| style="text-align:center" |7.02%
| style="text-align:center" |29 391*
| style="text-align:center" |0.69%*
| style="text-align:center" |20
| style="text-align:center" |5.18%
|align=center style="background: #ffdddd" |opposition
|-
| style="text-align:center" |1998
| style="text-align:center" |1 263 522
| style="text-align:center" |28.18%
| style="text-align:center" |187 609
| style="text-align:center" |38,80%
| style="text-align:center" |148
| style="text-align:center" |38.34%
|align=center style="background: #ddffdd"| goverment
|-
| style="text-align:center" |2002
| style="text-align:center" |2 306 763
| style="text-align:center" |41.07%
| style="text-align:center" |2 196 524
| style="text-align:center" |49.97%
| style="text-align:center" |164
| style="text-align:center" |42.49%
|align=center style="background: #ffdddd" |opposition
|-
| style="text-align:center" |2006
| style="text-align:center" |2 272 979
| style="text-align:center" |42.03%
| style="text-align:center" |1 511 176
| style="text-align:center" |46.65%
| style="text-align:center" |164 (141)**
| style="text-align:center" |42.49%
|align=center style="background: #ffdddd" |opposition
|}
 
<small>* Due to large number of resigns in favor of other parties</small><br>
<small>** From 164 MPs, 23 formed the separate fraction of KDNP, Fidesz has a fraction of 141</small>
 
Fidesz formed an electorial coalition with [[Hungarian Democratic Forum]] (MDF) for the 2002, and with the Hungarian [[Christian Democratic People's Party (Hungary)|Christian Democratic People's Party]] for the 2006 elections.
 
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