Momentum Movement

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Momentum Movement Momentum Mozgalom
Abbreviation	Momentum
Leader	Márton Tompos
Deputy Leader	Lajos Lőcsei
Executive Board Members	Lajos Lőcsei Dávid Bedő János Stummer Viktória Vajda Eszter Posch Milán Ruzsics
Spokesperson	Áron Varsányi
Founded	4 March 2017
Headquarters	1077 Budapest, Rózsa utca 22.
Newspaper	Van remény
Youth wing	Momentum TizenX
Membership	2,500
Ideology	Liberalism[3]
Political position	Centre[6]
European affiliation	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe[7]
European Parliament group	Renew Europe (2019–2024)
International affiliation	Liberal International (observer member)
Colours	Purple
Slogan	Új arcok, új Magyarország ('New faces, new Hungary')
National Assembly	10 / 199
European Parliament	0 / 21
County Assemblies	37 / 381
General Assembly of Budapest	0 / 33
Website
momentum.hu
Politics of Hungary Political parties Elections

Momentum Movement (Hungarian: Momentum Mozgalom, Momentum) is a centrist Hungarian political party founded in March 2017. It came to national prominence as a political association in January 2017 after organizing a petition about the Budapest bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, calling for a public referendum on the matter. The petition, which gathered over 266,151 signatures, was successful, but the government cancelled the Olympic bid before a referendum could have been held.^[8] After its establishment as a political party, Momentum quickly built a national following, and presently has approximately 4,000 members.^[when?] Momentum party candidates appeared on the ballot in most electoral districts in the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, promoting the replacement of the government of Viktor Orbán and advocating a new generation of political change in the country. The party obtained 3.06% of the votes, failed to reach the 5% threshold and did not get any seats in the National Assembly. In the 2019 European Parliament election in Hungary, the party obtained 9.86% and became the third largest party in the election. Two candidates of the party – Katalin Cseh and Anna Donáth – were elected to the European Parliament.^[9] In the 2022 Hungarian parliamentary election it ran under the list of the United for Hungary and entered parliament for the first time with 10 MPs.^[10][11][12]