Momentum Movement

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Not to be confused with Momentum (organisation).

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Momentum Movement
Momentum Mozgalom
Leader Anna Donáth
Executive Board Members Zsuzsanna Borbélyné Bárdi
Miklós Hajnal
Márton Ilyés
László Mándi
Endre Tóth
Anna Orosz[1]
Spokesperson Márton Tompos
Slogan "New faces, new Hungary"
(Hungarian: "Új arcok, új Magyarország")
Founded 4 March 2017
Headquarters 1077 Budapest, Rózsa utca 22.
Newspaper Van remény
Youth wing Momentum TizenX
Membership 4,000
Ideology Liberalism[2][3]
Civic nationalism[4]
Pro-Europeanism[2][5][6]
Political position Centre[7]
National affiliation United for Hungary
European affiliation Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe[8]
European Parliament group Renew Europe
Colours      Purple
National Assembly
0 / 199
European Parliament
2 / 21
County Assemblies
30 / 381
Website
momentum.hu
Politics of Hungary
Political parties
Elections

Momentum Movement (Hungarian: Momentum Mozgalom, shortly Momentum or M) is a centrist Hungarian political party founded in March 2017. It came to national prominence as a political association in January 2017 after organizing a petition about the Budapest bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, calling for a public referendum on the matter. The petition, which gathered over 266,151 signatures, was successful, but the government cancelled the Olympic bid before a referendum could have been held.[9] After its establishment as a political party, Momentum quickly built a national following, and presently has approximately 4,000 members.[when?] Momentum party candidates appeared on the ballot in most electoral districts in the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, promoting the replacement of the government of Viktor Orbán and advocating a new generation of political change in the country. The party obtained 3.06% of the votes, failed to reach the 5% threshold and did not get any seats in the National Assembly, but is now widely considered the strongest extra-parliamentary party in Hungary, and is often involved in the organization of political events and demonstrations.[10][11]

In the 2019 European Parliament election in Hungary, the party obtained 9.86% and became the third largest party in the election. Two candidates of the party – Katalin Cseh and Anna Donáth – were elected to the European Parliament.[12]

Political positions

Momentum advocates for the replacement of the present Hungarian political elite, including the government of Viktor Orbán, with a "new breed of political community in Hungary."[13] The party is generally pro-European, pro-globalization, and anti-Putin, claiming that Hungary does not need to sacrifice its own interests in order to fulfil its commitments to the European Union. The party's social views are largely progressive in nature; it supports gay marriage, the decriminalisation of cannabis, and abortion rights.[14] Momentum nonetheless calls itself a centrist party, and rejects classification on either side of the political spectrum. It calls for bipartisan co-operation, writing in its mission statement that Hungary "must not be divided by ideological battles, but brought together by common goals."[15]

History

In early 2015, the Momentum Movement group was created by ten Hungarians. On November 3, 2016, the group registered as an association, led by lawyer Dániel Károly Csala. By February 2017, the association lead a drive for a referendum on Budapest's bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics: they had 143 members and 1,800 activists. On March 4, 2017, Momentum Movement became an official political party, with 99 founding members. András Fekete-Győr was elected as party leader, while Anna Orosz, Tamás Soproni, Edina Pottyondy and Barnabás Kádár became deputy presidents.[16]

In May 2017, pollsters estimated that the party stood at 3% national support. Most of its supporters were high school graduates under the age of 40 or college-educated urban residents.[citation needed] In October 2017, the party released its platform for the upcoming election (Hungarian: országos program), a 363-page document proposing solutions to an array of perceived issues in the Hungarian governmental system. The critical reception to the document was mixed: one major Hungarian news outlet, the Magyar Idők, called the document a "pile of empty promises," while another, hvg.hu, wrote that the document's proposed healthcare policy seemed "the most detailed and thorough." In March 2018, the party announced that their parliamentary candidates would be on the ballot in 97 out of 106 electoral districts in Hungary. On April 8, 2018, the party obtained 3.08% of the popular vote in the parliamentary elections. Momentum did not meet the threshold for the party to be recognized in parliament, but qualified for government subsidies for the next term.

On May 5, 2018, the president of the party resigned, and the three head directors of the party temporarily took over leadership. In April 2019, the party was registered for the 2019 European Parliament election. On May 26, 2019, the party obtained 9.86% of the popular vote (becoming the third largest party in the election), thus meeting the 5% threshold: two candidates of the party were elected to the European Parliament.

In 2019 local election the party managed to win mayorships of three Budapest districts and 29 seats in counties' assemblies (mostly in Pest county).

Organizational structure

Organizational hubs

Momentum has 95 organizational hubs across Hungary, as well as ten international hubs in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, the UK, Belgium, France, Denmark and Sweden.[17]

Organizational structure

Operation of Momentum is overseen by a chair of five members, including the president of the party (see below), while the Congress of Delegates (Hungarian: Küldöttgyűlés) serves as the party's primary decision-making group.

Chair members

Election results

National Assembly

Election year National Assembly Government Leader
# of
overall votes		  % of
overall vote		 # of
overall seats won		 +/–
2018[18]
175,229
3.08% (#6)
0 / 199
Steady extra-parliamentary András Fekete-Győr

European Parliament

Election year European Parliament EP group
No. of
overall votes		  % of
overall vote		 No. of
overall seats won		 +/–
2019
344,512
9.93% (#3)
2 / 21
Increase 2 Renew Europe

History of leaders

Image Name Entered office Left office Length of Leadership
1 85x85px András Fekete-Győr 4 March 2017 10 October 2021 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
– 75x75px Anna Orosz
(interim)		 10 October 2021 21 November 2021 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
2 75x75px Anna Donáth 21 November 2021 present Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.

References

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