Together 2014
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Together
Együtt |
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| President | Péter Juhász |
| Founded | 26 October 2012 (alliance) 8 March 2013 (party) |
| Ideology |
Social democracy Social liberalism Liberalism Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| European affiliation | None |
| National Assembly |
2 / 199
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| European Parliament |
0 / 21
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| County Assemblies |
0 / 419
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| Party flag | |
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| Website | |
| www |
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Together (Hungarian: Együtt), officially Together – Party for a New Era (Hungarian: Együtt – A Korszakváltók Pártja), formerly also known as Together 2014 (Hungarian: Együtt 2014), is a social 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. The current leader of the party is Viktor Szigetvári.
The party had formed an electoral alliance with the Dialogue for Hungary (PM) and they won together four seats in the national assembly and one seat in the European Parliament. Together has taken two seats from the four in the Hungarian parliament but has no representatives in Brussels.
During its foundation, the coalition consisted of three civil society organizations:
Gordon Bajnai announced his return to politics on 23 October 2012, during the anti-government demonstration of the One Million for Press Freedom (Milla). On the protest, he called for an anti-Orbán coalition so as to form a supermajority in Parliament with the help of which the changes done by Orbán's ruling party, Fidesz could be undone.
In his speech, Bajnai repeatedly used a variant of the term ("We may fail on our own, but together, we shall prove victorious!"), when he proclaimed his support for such a "cooperation between hopeful left-wingers, disappointed rightwingers, politically abandoned free-thinkers and committed Greens" that his organization along with two other civilian body named Together 2014 as a reference to the date of the next general elections in Hungary. In December 2012, Bajnai announced that he intends to be a parliamentarian candidate in the 2014 general election.
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