Leader of the Opposition (Hungary)

Leader of the Opposition
Leader of the Opposition
	Incumbent; Ferenc Gyurcsány; since 3 April 2022
Term length	While leader of the largest party not in government
Salary	HUF 74,400,000 annually ; USD 251,075 annually

The Leader of the Opposition (Hungarian: Az ellenzék vezetője) is an unofficial title held by the leader of the largest party not within the government.

The Opposition (

parliamentary majority

.

History

The Leader of the Opposition is normally the leader of the largest party not within the government, which is usually the second largest political party in the National Assembly.

Following the

two-thirds majority

.

On 4 March 1996, 15 MPs left MDF and formed Hungarian Democratic People's Party (MDNP), as a result agrarian right-wing Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party (FKgP) became the largest opposition party. By 1997, several parliamentarians had joined the Fidesz, mainly from the disintegrating Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP). The Fidesz became the main challenger to the socialist-liberal cabinet.

From 1998 until 2010, there was a de facto two-party system in Hungary. MSZP suffered a heavy defeat in the

2014 parliamentary election confirmed this position. Socialist Party Gyula Molnár was the Leader of the Opposition from 25 June 2016 to 2018. After Jobbik became the largest opposition party in the 2018 parliamentary election, the unofficial title belonged to Tamás Sneider, from 2018 to 2020 when he was replaced at Jobbik's Congress by Péter Jakab who has held the post until the next election, when the Democratic Coalition

became the largest opposition party.

List of leaders of the Opposition

No.		Political Party	Term of office
1	János Kis	SZDSZ	1990–1991
2	Péter Tölgyessy	SZDSZ	1991–1992
3	Iván Pető	SZDSZ	1992–1994
4	Lajos Für	MDF	1994–1996
5	József Torgyán	FKgP	1996–1997
6	Viktor Orbán	Fidesz	1997–1998
7	Gyula Horn	MSZP	1998
8	László Kovács	MSZP	1998–2002
9	Zoltán Pokorni	Fidesz	2002
10	János Áder	Fidesz	2002–2003
(6)	Viktor Orbán	Fidesz	2003–2010
11	Ildikó Lendvai	MSZP	2010
12	Attila Mesterházy	MSZP	2010–2014
—	László Botka^[3]	MSZP	2014
13	József Tóbiás	MSZP	2014–2016
14	Gyula Molnár	MSZP	2016–2018
15	Tamás Sneider	Jobbik	2018–2020
16	Péter Jakab	Jobbik	2020–2022
17	Ferenc Gyurcsány	Democratic Coalition	2022–present

References

^ "Hatmilliós Jakab: Ennyibe kerül havonta Jakab Péter az adófizetőknek". 7 March 2021.
^ Bodan Todosijević The Hungarian Voter: Left–Right Dimension as a Clue to Policy Preferences in International Political Science Review (2004), Vol 25, No. 4, p. 421
^ Acting Leader of the Opposition

[origo.hu-1] "Hatmilliós Jakab: Ennyibe kerül havonta Jakab Péter az adófizetőknek". 7 March 2021.

[2] Bodan Todosijević The Hungarian Voter: Left–Right Dimension as a Clue to Policy Preferences in International Political Science Review (2004), Vol 25, No. 4, p. 421

[acting_leader-3] Acting Leader of the Opposition

[1]

[3]

History

List of leaders of the Opposition

See also

References