The party was founded in 1947, shortly before the
August parliamentary elections that year. It was generally considered a successor of the banned
Hungarian Freedom Party led by
Dezső Sulyok, who had been forced into exile that summer. Led by , it won 49 of the 411 seats, becoming the fifth largest party in Parliament. However, in October the National Elections Committee ruled that the party had participated in the election unlawfully, and its seats were annulled. A new party was established following the end of Communism. In the
1990 parliamentary elections it received less than 0.1% of the vote, and did not run again. ==References==