Election 2014 – Record Number Of National Lists: Thirty-one National Party Submitted

(MTI) – A total of 31 national party lists had been submitted to the National Election Office (NVI) by the Tuesday afternoon deadline. Additionally, all 13 national minorities had also submitted their lists.

Accordingly, a record number of national lists — 44 in all — is expected to apply in this year’s national election scheduled for April 6. The 31 parties concerned include the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrat alliance, the opposition left-of-centre Unity alliance (comprising the Socialist Party, Together – Party for a New Era, Democratic Coalition, Dialogue for Hungary and the Liberal Party), the radical nationalist Jobbik and the green Politics Can Be Different (LMP). Non-parliamentary forces entering a national list include the Social Democratic Civic Party, the Democratic Community of Welfare and Freedom (the successor to the Hungarian Democratic Forum MDF), the Homeland Not For Sale Party, Maria Seres’s Allies and ex-Socialist Katalin Szili’s Community for Social Justice.