| Politics Can Be Different Lehet Más a Politika |
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| Leader | 13 member leadership |
| Founded | 26 February 2009 |
| Headquarters | 1065 Budapest, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 37. |
| Ideology | Green liberalism[1][2] Soft euroscepticism[3] Social progressivism |
| Political position | Center-left |
| International affiliation | Global Greens (observer) |
| European affiliation | European Green Party (observer) |
| Official colours | Green |
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| http://lehetmas.hu/ | |
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Politics Can Be Different (Hungarian: Lehet Más a Politika), abbreviated to LMP, is a Hungarian green liberal[1][2] political party. Founded in 2009, it was one of four parties to win seats in the National Assembly in the 2010 parliamentary election.
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The party was preceded by a non-governmental organization social initiative founded in 2008, with the purpose of reforming Hungarian politics.[4] LMP shares common ideologies with most green parties. Key issues are environmental protection, sustainable development and the fight against corruption in the current political elite. LMP highlights what they see as the pointlessness of the current partisan division between the left and right-wing forces, and their principle is deliberative democracy, which they believe decreases the distance between the people and the political elite.
The public face of the organization is András Schiffer, former member of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) and Védegylet, Benedek Jávor, university professor in environmental law and a founder of Védegylet, and Tímea Szabó, humanitarian worker, heading the list presented for the European Parliamentary Elections. LMP received the official endorsement of the European Green Party.[5]
The party garnered 75,522 votes, (or 2.61% of the total votes) at the first elections it participated in, the 2009 European Parliament elections, which was less than the 5% needed to gain a seat for the 2009-2014 cycle, though beating the 2.16% received by one of the parties already in the national parliament.[6] In the 2010 parliamentary elections, the party achieved 7.48% in the first electoral round, thereby clearing the 5 percent electoral threshold, gaining 16 seats in the parliament, though it did not obtain any direct-representational seats.[7] In the local elections of 2010 October 3, LMP gained 54 seats in local city councils, with at least one representative in most of the district councils of the capital, 3 seats in the central council of Budapest, as well as in a few other cities around the country.
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