Gypsy Solidarity Party

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Gypsy Solidarity Party
Cigányok Szolidaritási Pártja
ChairmanFerenc Buri
Founded16 February 1994
Dissolved29 July 2003
IdeologyRomani minority interests

The Gypsy Solidarity Party (Hungarian: Cigányok Szolidaritási Pártja; CSZP), was a political party in Hungary for the ethnic Romani minority that existed between 1994 and 2003.

History[edit]

The CSZP was founded by members of the Phralipe Independent Gypsy Organization in Budapest on 14 February 1994 to contest the May 1994 parliamentary election. Romani writer and poet Béla Osztojkán, who formerly left the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) in 1993, was among the founding members.[1] The CSZP participated in the 1994 national election with four individual candidates, who received 0.08 percent of the votes.[2] After that the party did not contest any further elections.[3]

Election results[edit]

National Assembly[edit]

Election year National Assembly Government
# of
overall votes
% of
overall vote
# of
overall seats won
+/–
1994 3,282
0,08%
0 / 386
extra-parliamentary

References[edit]

  1. ^ Vida 2011, p. 338.
  2. ^ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 899. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  3. ^ Vida 2011, p. 339.

Sources[edit]

  • Vida, István (2011). "Cigányok Szolidaritási Pártja (CSZP)". Magyarországi politikai pártok lexikona (1846–2010) [Encyclopedia of the Political Parties in Hungary (1846–2010)] (in Hungarian). Gondolat Kiadó. pp. 338–339. ISBN 978-963-693-276-3.