Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party

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The Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party (Független Kisgazda, Földmunkás és Polgári Párt) is a political party in Hungary. At Hungary's most recent legislative elections (2006), the party won no seats.

Founded in 1945, the original party won an overwhelming majority in the first elections after the Second World War, resulting in its leader, Zoltán Tildy, becoming prime minister. The Smallholders-dominated parliament established a republic in 1946 with Tildy as president. He was succeeded as prime minister by Ferenc Nagy. However, the Soviet occupation of the country led to a socialist government, despite the fact that only seventy members of parliament belonged to the Hungarian Communist Party.

In 1947 the Communist Party carried out a coup d’état against the rule of the Smallholders’ Party. Though not all democratic institutions were abolished, the Communists firmly held power, despite Lajos Dinnyés of the Smallholders remaining prime minister. Two years later, the Smallholders Party was absorbed into a People’s Independent Front, led by the communist Hungarian Workers' Party. After the latter prevailed in that year's elections, a communist people's republic was established. The Smallholders party was dissolved afterwards.

[edit] Party leaders (1945-1949; 1988–)

Leader	Dates
Zoltán Tildy	1945-1947
István Dobi	1947-1949
István Prepaliczay	1988-1990
Ferenc József Nagy	1988-1991
Ferenc József Nagy & József Torgyán	1991
József Torgyán	1991-2002
Miklós Reti	since 2002