New Start (Hungary)


New Start, also known as UK, is a centre-right, third way political party in Hungary, founded by György Gémesi, mayor of Gödöllő.

History

The party was founded in 2017, though Gémesi had made references to the formation of a party earlier. But Gémesi officially only announced the formation of the party on March 15, along with his 12-point platform.
In July that year, Gémesi announced that he was negotiating cooperation with centrist party Politics Can Be Different. In December 2017, György Gémesi and Bernadett Szél has agreed, that the New Start and the Politics Can Be Different is running together in the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary election. György Gémesi is elected but resigned and Krisztina Hohn replaced him on June, 11. She joined the Politics Can Be Different group at the National Assembly.
In July 2018, György Gémesi announced that his party will not cooperate with LMP in the future, for next year's European Parliament and municipal elections.
The party joined the European political party European Democratic Party in February 2019.

Ideology