The party was established in February 1990 by
Miklós Duray, and allied with the
Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement to take part in the general elections that year. In the
elections to the Czechoslovak
Federal Assembly the two parties won five seats in the Chamber of the People and seven in the Chamber of the Nations. In the
elections to the
National Council of
Slovakia the alliance won 14 seats. The parties maintained their alliance for the 1992 elections, maintaining the same number of seats in the
Federal Assembly and the
Slovak National Council. In 1994 Coexistence allied with the Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement and the Hungarian Civic Party to form the
Hungarian Coalition. In the
elections that year the alliance won seventeen seats (nine of which were Coexistence members), ==References==