Hungarian Coalition Party

Party of the Hungarian coalition ( Slovak. Strana maďarskej koalície , Hungarian. Magyar Koalíció Pártja ) is a center-right political party representing the interests of the Hungarians of Slovakia . The party was founded by three small parties of the Hungarian minority in 1998 . The reason for creating a single party was the adoption of a law prohibiting the formation of short-term political associations shortly before the election.

Hungarian Coalition Party
Strana maďarskej koalície Magyar Koalíció Pártja
Leader	Joseph Berenyi
Established	1998
Headquarters
Ideology	defending the interests of the Hungarian minority , Christian democracy
International	European People's Party
Number of members
Site	mkp.sk

The first chairman of the party was Bela Bugar , who was replaced by Pal Chaki in 2007 . In 2009, Bugar , who left the party, created his own party , Most – Híd (Bridge) , which advocates international peace and cooperation between Slovaks and Hungarians .

In 1998 - 2006, the party was part of the government of Mikulas Dzurinda , where it was represented by 4 ministers (Pal Chaki was Minister for European Integration and Minority Rights, Laszlo Miklos - Minister of the Environment, Laszlo Dyurovsky - Minister of Regional Development, Zsolt Shimon - Minister of Rural household). In 2006-10, the PJC was in opposition to the government of Robert Fico , which included the nationalist Slovak National Party .

In the parliamentary elections of June 12, 2010, the party failed to overcome the five percent barrier (it received 109,639 (4.33%) of the vote) and lost representation in parliament. PVC is represented in the European Parliament by two deputies. Since 2000, the PVC joined the European People's Party .