Alliance for the Village and Countryside

The Alliance for the Village and Countryside (Hungarian: Szövetség a Faluért, a Vidékért; SZFV), was an agrarianist political party in Hungary, based in Baranya County.[1]

Alliance for the Village and Countryside
Szövetség a Faluért, a Vidékért
PresidentFerenc Wekler
Founded23 January 1990
Dissolved24 August 2001
IdeologyAgrarianism
Regionalism
Political positionLeft-wing
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

History

The SZFV made an electoral coalition with the Agrarian Alliance (ASZ), the two parties had two joint individual candidates for the 1990 parliamentary election,[2] József Fabi in Szigetvár and SZFV leader Ferenc Wekler in Mohács. In addition to this, the party's two other politicians also ran solely (Jenő Gáspár in Pécs and Gyula Kóbor in Komló), all four of them in Baranya County. Surprisingly, Wekler won his constituency in the first round. After that he was also supported by the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) and he obtained the mandate with 57.2 percent of the votes in the second round. In accordance with the electoral deal, Wekler joined the SZDSZ parliamentary group. The SZFV did not contest any further elections, it became technically defunct by August 2001, when the Baranya County Court ordered to dissolve the organization.[1]

Election results

National Assembly
Election year National Assembly Government
# of
overall votes		  % of
overall vote		 # of
overall seats won		 +/–
19901 16,050 0.4%
1 / 386
 in opposition

1 In an electoral alliance with the Agrarian Alliance (ASZ) in two constituencies out of four. SZFV leader and joint candidate Ferenc Wekler joined the SZDSZ caucus.

References
  1. Vida 2011, p. 457.
  2. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 899. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

Sources
  • Vida, István (2011). "Szövetség a Faluért, a Vidékért (SZFV)". Magyarországi politikai pártok lexikona (1846–2010) [Encyclopedia of the Political Parties in Hungary (1846–2010)] (in Hungarian). Gondolat Kiadó. p. 457. ISBN 978-963-693-276-3.
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