Party of the Hungarian Coalition The SMK-MKP party was founded as
Party of the Hungarian Coalition (, ) in 1998 in response to an anti-coalition law passed. The law prevented parties from forming electoral cartels at election time, which small parties had used to overcome the 5%
electoral threshold. Three parties representing the Hungarian minority had formed such a cartel, called 'Hungarian Coalition' in the
1994 election, and had won 10.2% of the vote. To comply with the new law, the three parties – the
Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement,
Coexistence, and the
Hungarian Civic Party – merged to form the Party of the Hungarian Coalition. Following the 2002 parliamentary election in Slovakia, the Party of the Hungarian Coalition joined the Slovak governing coalition for the second time (after the 1998–2002 term), obtained 321,069 votes (11.16% of all votes), and was the most stable political party in the governing coalition. At the EU parliament election in 2004 the party won 13.24% of the vote. The party had 4 ministers (
Pál Csáky – Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration and Minority Rights,
László Miklós – Minister of Environment,
László Gyurovszky – Minister of Construction and Regional Development and
Zsolt Simon – Minister of Agriculture) and 6 state secretaries (Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Construction and Regional Development) in the Slovak government.
Béla Bugár, the president of the Party of the Hungarian Coalition at that time, was the Vice President of the National Council of the Slovak Republic. In the
parliamentary election of 17 June 2006, the party won 11.7% of the popular vote and 20 out of 150 seats, but lost its participation in the government.
Decline In 2009, a moderate faction led by high-ranking SMK-MKP members founded
Most–Híd. In the
parliamentary election of 12 June 2010, the party missed the 5% border needed for participation in parliament by receiving 4.33% and lost its position in parliament. The SMK-MKP also proved unable to obtain 5% of the votes in the
2012 parliamentary election. On 22 September 2012, the party was renamed to
Party of the Hungarian Community (, ). In the
2014 European elections, SMK–MKP came in seventh place nationally, receiving 6.53% of the vote and electing 1
MEP. In the
2019 European elections, SMK–MKP fell just short of the 5% threshold with 4.96% thus losing their MEP.
Hungarian Community Togetherness Összefogás–Spolupatričnosť (Unity) was founded in the autumn of 2019, citing disputes between the Hungarian parties as a reason for its formation, which could have caused the Hungarian minority not to be represented on the
National Council after the
2020 Slovak parliamentary elections. Former Member of the European Parliament for SMK-MKP,
Edit Bauer, and former Deputy Chairman of
Hungarian Civic Party (MNI), Gábor Zászlós, were instrumental in the formation of the party. In connection with the upcoming parliamentary elections, the members of Összefogás–Spolupatričnosť negotiated an electoral cooperation with four other ethnic Hungarian parties (
Most–Híd, SMK-MKP,
MKDA-MKDSZ,
MF-MF). On 24 November 2019, Összefogás–Spolupatričnosť approved the joint action of the Hungarian parties in the parliamentary elections. Összefogás–Spolupatričnosť was then transformed into MKÖ-MKS, and gained 30 seats on the candidate list. Szabolcs Mózes, the party president, ran second on the list, Örs Orosz, the party vice president, ran sixth, and József Nagy, a former
member of the European Parliament, ran ninth. Mózes stated that they were joining to ensure the representation of the Hungarian minority and to contribute to the change of government and the removal of the
SMER-SD party from power. Eventually, SMK-MKP and the Hungarian Forum agreed to run on the Összefogás–Spolupatričnosť list which renamed themselves to
Hungarian Community Togetherness (, ;
MKÖ-MKS). They only reached 3.91% and Most–Híd got 2.05% in the
2020 parliamentary election. This was the first election, in which no Hungarian minority party reached the 5% threshold. After their failure, MKÖ-MKS, SMK-MKP, and
Most–Híd entered into negotiations about further cooperation. On 20 August 2020, they signed a declaration of cooperation in
Komárno, a town in southwestern Slovakia. In March 2021, they announced that the negotiations had been successful, and that a new party "Szövetség – Aliancia" would be established. The new party would have three officers: a chairman nominated by SMK-MKP, a chairman of the Republican Council nominated by Most–Híd, and the post of expert vice-chairman nominated by MKÖ-MKS.
Alliance Szövetség–Aliancia was formed by merging the parties SMK-MKP, Most–Híd, and MKÖ-MKS at the assembly in
Šamorín on 2 October 2021. The assembly was preceded by two years of negotiations between five Hungarian political parties about the possibility of cooperation. The goal of joining forces was declared as a return to parliament after the
next election, or to be part of the governing coalition. Leaving only the SMK-MKP and Összefogás factions in the party.
Hungarian Alliance On the December 9, 2023 congress, the name of the party was changed to Hungarian Alliance, platforms were abolished and Gyimesi, who joined the party a few days earlier, became deputy chairman. In the second round of the
2024 presidential election, HA endorsed Smer-backed
Peter Pellegrini who won the election. ==International affiliations==