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Leader
  
Lajos Bokros

Founded
  
21 April 2013

Vice Presidents
  
Erzsébet Pusztai

Political position
  
Centre-right

Modern Hungary Movement

Headquarters
  
1036 Budapest Lajos utca 107. II/10.

Ideology
  
Liberal conservatism Pro-Europeanism

The Modern Hungary Movement (Hungarian: Modern Magyarország Mozgalom), abbreviated to MoMa, is a liberal conservative political party in Hungary. Founded by former Finance Minister Lajos Bokros MEP on 21 April 2013, MoMa stands for free market, liberal values and champions "individual freedom, the free market, and the freedom of private and intellectual property".

The party claims to be modelled on the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom.

MoMa decided not to participate in the 2014 parliamentary election, because "they do not want to weaken the cooperation of left-wing parties with separate candidates." Bokros criticized and resented that his party were excluded from the alliance. Later MoMa formally asked its supporters to vote Unity in the 2014 general election, after receiving constitutional guarantees from the left-wing opposition.

The party planned to run in the 2014 European Parliament election, however its registration was refused by the National Election Office (NVI). As a result Bokros lost his European Parliament mandate. Bokros also ran for Mayor of Budapest in the 2014 municipal election. On 29 September 2014, two other candidates, the independent György Magyar and candidate of the leftist opposition parties' Ferenc Falus withdrew from the election and supported Bokros. Bokros received 36.04% of the votes and came second after István Tarlós. He was supported by Together 2014, the Democratic Coalition and the Budapest branch of the Hungarian Socialist Party.

References

Modern Hungary Movement Wikipedia