Árpád Göncz was a Hungarian liberal politician, who served as President of Hungary from 2 May 1990 to 4 August 2000. Göncz played a role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He was also founding member of the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) and Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary before becoming President. He was Hungary's first freely elected head of state, as well as the first in 42 years who was not a Communist or a fellow traveler.
Viktor Mihály Orbán is a Hungarian politician serving as Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010. He also served as prime minister from 1998 to 2002. He is the present leader of the national conservative Fidesz party, a post he has held since 2003 and, previously, from 1993 to 2000.
Gyula Horn was a Hungarian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary from 1994 to 1998.
Pál Schmitt is a Hungarian Olympic fencer and politician who served as President of Hungary from 2010 to 2012.
The Christian Democratic People's Party is a Christian democratic political party in Hungary. It is officially a coalition partner of the ruling party, Fidesz, but is in reality a satellite party of Fidesz, and has been unable to get into the Parliament on its own since 2006. For several elections prior to the pact they had been unable to pass the election threshold of 5% of the vote. Without Fidesz, its support cannot be measured, and even a leading Fidesz politician, János Lázár, stated that Fidesz doesn't consider the government to be a coalition government.
The Hungarian Justice and Life Party is a nationalist political party in Hungary which was founded by István Csurka in 1993.
The Hungarian Two-tailed Dog Party is a joke political party in Hungary. It was founded in Szeged in 2006, but registered as an official political party in 2014. The party's main activity is street art – graffiti, stencils and various posters – parodying the political elite.
Politics Can Be Different is a green political party in Hungary. Founded in 2009, it was one of four parties to win seats in the National Assembly in the 2010 parliamentary election. The party is a member of the European Green Party.
János Áder is a Hungarian politician and lawyer who has been the President of Hungary since 10 May 2012. Previously he served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary from 1998 to 2002 and deputy chairman of the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety from January to May 2012.
László Kövér is a Hungarian politician and the current Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary. He was the acting President of Hungary from 2 April 2012 to 10 May 2012, after the resignation of Pál Schmitt.
András Schiffer is a Hungarian lawyer and former politician, who served as co-President of the Politics Can Be Different and leader of its parliamentary group. Schiffer announced his retirement from politics on 31 May 2016.
Gergely Karácsony is a Hungarian political scientist, politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) from 2010 to 2014. He was elected Mayor of Zugló in 2014. His research areas are electoral systems and electoral behavior.
Together, officially Together – Party for a New Era, formerly also known as Together 2014, was a socially liberal political party in Hungary, formed on 26 October 2012 for the 2014 Hungarian parliamentary election by Gordon Bajnai, the former Prime Minister of Hungary, to contrast Viktor Orbán's government. Together was founded as a coalition of left-wing and liberal political movements and civil organizations, which transformed itself into a party in March 2013.
Lajos Kósa is a Hungarian economist and politician, who served as Mayor of Debrecen between 1998 and 2014. He has been a Member of Parliament since 1990.
The European Parliament election, 2014 for the election of the delegation from Hungary to the European Parliament was held on 25 May 2014.
In late October 2014, anti-government demonstrations were held in Hungary, which were triggered by the government's announcement of a proposal to include the taxation of Internet usage in the Taxation Law, to be in effect from 2015. The ruling right-wing coalition’s larger party, Fidesz made their proposal public on October 21, which is meant to extend the existing telecommunications tax to Internet usage. The proposal designated a 150 HUF/GB tax rate paid by the internet service providers. Later, a cap was proposed: HUF 700 per month (individuals) or HUF 5,000 (companies).
A referendum related to the European Union's migrant relocation plans was held in Hungary on 2 October 2016. The referendum was initiated by the government, under the provision of article 8 of the new constitution of 2012. It was commonly referred to as the kvótanépszavazás or kvótareferendum in the Hungarian media.
An indirect presidential election was held in Hungary on 13 March 2017. János Áder was elected President of Hungary for a second term.
Momentum Movement is a centrist Hungarian political party founded in March 2017. It came to national prominence in January 2017 after organizing a petition against the Budapest bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, calling for a public referendum on the matter. The petition, which gathered over 266,000 signatures, was successful, but the government cancelled the Olympic bid before a referendum could have been held. After its establishment as a political party, Momentum quickly built a national following, and presently has approximately 4,000 members. The party failed to win any seats in the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, but is widely considered the strongest extra-parliamentary party in Hungary, and has been involved in the organization of several political demonstrations.
Miklós Kásler is a Hungarian oncologist, professor, director of the National Institute of Oncology, and since 2018 Minister of Human Resources.
