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|native_name = Magyar Elet Pártja
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|leader1_name = [[Kálmán Darányi]] (1936-1938, first)<br>[[Miklós Kállay]] (1942-1944, last)
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The '''Party of Hungarian Life''' ('''''Magyar Elet Partja'', MEP''') was a [[Szeged Idea|Szeged]] [[Fascism|fascist]] and [[Nazism|Nazi]] political party in Hungary created in late February 1939 that was the successor of the [[Party of National Unity (Hungary)|Party of National Unity]].<ref>Miklós Lackó. "Arrow-cross men, national socialists, 1935-1944", ''Studia historica, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia''. Volume 61. Akadémiai Kiadó, 1969. Pp. 65.</ref> The MEP was further to the [[Right-wing politics|political right]] than its predacessor.<ref>Stein Ugelvik Larsen, Bernt Hagtvet, Jan Petter Myklebust. ''Who were the Fascists: social roots of European Fascism''. Universitetsförlaget, 1980. Pp. 398. </ref>
The party won a huge majority of the seats of the Hungarian parliament in the Hungarian election of May 1939.<ref>Peter F. Sugar, Péter Hanák. ''A History of Hungary.'' First paperback edition. Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Indiana University Press, 1994. Pp. 341.</ref> It won 72 percent of the parliament's seats and won 49 percent of the popular vote in the election.<ref>Georgi Karasimeonov. Cleavages, parties, and voters: studies from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999. Pp. 70.</ref> This was a major breakthrough for the [[Far-right politics|far-right]] in Hungary.<ref>Georgi Karasimeonov. Cleavages, parties, and voters: studies from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999. Pp. 70.</ref> The party promoted nationalist and racist propaganda and its members sympathizes with the Nazi [[Arrow Cross Party]].<ref>Georgi Karasimeonov. Cleavages, parties, and voters: studies from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999. Pp. 70.</ref>
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