Categories
  Encyclosphere.org ENCYCLOREADER
  supported by EncyclosphereKSF

United Christian Party (Hungary)

From Wikipedia - Reading time: 7 min
United Christian Party
Egyesült Kereszténypárt
Founded1937
Merger ofKGSZP, KE, NLN
Succeeded byKDNP
ReligionCatholicism[1]
Politics of Hungary
Constitution
Executive
Parliament
Recent elections
Budapest
Mayor of Budapest
Gergely Karácsony
Mayoral elections
1994
1998
2002
2006
2010
2014
2019
Administrative divisions
Foreign relations

The United Christian Party (Hungarian: Egyesült Kereszténypárt, EKP) was a political party in Hungary that operated from the late 1930s until dissolving in 1944.

History

[edit]

The party was formed in 1937 by a merger of the Christian Economic and Social Party (KGSZP), the Christian Opposition and the National Legitimist Party (NLN), although members of the Christian Opposition broke away later in the same year to re-establish their party.[2] Some other members left to establish the far-right Christian National Socialist Front (KNSZF).[2]

The 1939 elections saw the new party win only four seats, eleven fewer than the KGSZP and NLN had won in 1935. It finished behind the Christian National Socialist Front in terms of vote share, although the KNSZF won only three seats. Neither party contested another election.[3]

After World War II, the EKP was succeeded by the Christian Democratic People's Party.[4]

Further reading

[edit]
  • Fazekas Csaba (2004). "Collaborating with Horthy: Political Catholicism and Christian Political Organizations in Hungary". In Wolfram Kaiser & Helmut Wohnout (ed.). Political Catholicism in Europe 1918–1945. Vol. 1. Routledge. pp. 160–177.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Barankovics István Alapítvány. "II. The first prunes of modern Hungarian Christian democracy". The Voyage of Hungarian Christian Democracy to the Heart of Europe (PDF). p. 26. ISBN 978-963-89921-8-5.
  2. ^ a b Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p911 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  3. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p908
  4. ^ Vincent E. McHale (1983) Political parties of Europe, Greenwood Press, p511 ISBN 0-313-23804-9
Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 | Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Christian_Party_(Hungary)
8 views |
↧ Download as ZWI file
Encyclosphere.org EncycloReader is supported by the EncyclosphereKSF