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TheHungarian Coalition (Hungarian:Magyar Koalíció (MK);Serbian:Мађарска Коалиција (МК),Mađarska Koalicija (MK)) was apolitical coalition composed of three ethnicHungarianpolitical parties inSerbia: theAlliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, theDemocratic Party of Vojvodina Hungarians, and theDemocratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians. The leader of the Hungarian Coalition wasIstván Pásztor.
The Hungarian Coalition advocates the creation of an autonomous multiethnic region in northern Serbia (see:Hungarian Regional Autonomy), which would include municipalities with aHungarian ethnic majority (Kanjiža,Senta,Ada,Bačka Topola,Mali Iđoš,Čoka), as well as ethnically mixed municipalities ofSubotica andBečej and municipality ofNovi Kneževac, in which the majority of population areSerbs. The center of this autonomous region would be Subotica.[1]
In2008 Serbian parliamentary election, the Hungarian Coalition won 4 seats in the Serbian parliament. On April 25, 2008 the Hungarian Coalition got the support ofCroat partyDemocratic Union of Croats for these elections.[2]
On theprovincial elections in Vojvodina in 2008, the Hungarian Coalition won 7% of votes in the first election round.
In2008 local elections in Serbia, the expectations of the Hungarian Coalition were to win majority of votes in the local parliaments of municipalities of Serbia with ethnic Hungarian majority, but this was the case only in municipality ofKanjiža, where Hungarian Coalition won 50.91% of votes. The Coalition also won the plurality of votes in municipalities ofSenta (31.87%),Bačka Topola (46.25%), andMali Iđoš (37.18%), while in municipalities ofČoka andAda, the Hungarian Coalition was second largest political option, afterDemocratic Party (In Čoka, Democratic Party won 29.08% of votes and Hungarian Coalition won 24.47% of votes; in Ada, the coalition led by Democratic Party won 29.25% of votes and Hungarian Coalition won 25.70% of votes). In the ethnically mixed municipality ofSubotica, the Hungarian Coalition was also second largest political option after coalition led by Democratic Party (Democratic Party coalition won 40.16% of votes and Hungarian Coalition won 27.14% of votes in Subotica), while in the ethnically mixed municipality ofBečej, the Hungarian Coalition won the plurality of votes (29.63%). In the municipality ofNovi Kneževac with an ethnic Serb majority (claimed by Hungarian Coalition as part of future autonomous region), the Hungarian Coalition was third largest political option with 17.63% of votes (Largest political option in Novi Kneževac municipality was coalition led by Democratic Party with 27.18% of votes, and the second largest wasSerbian Radical Party with 22.46% of the votes).[3]
