ABSTRACT
Democracy was institutionalized in the Republic of Hungary between 1987 and 1989, as a result of which a multi-tier political system came into being and state power gained a new frame of parliamentary democracy. Hungarian political traditions are determined by more than a thousand years of Hungarian statehood. From the time of Saint Stephen, a constitutional concept of the state provided the framework for Hungarian political culture for a long time before the communist regime and after the democratic regime change in 1989–1990. In the Hungarian political system, the most prominent state and representative organ is its 386-member, 199-member parliament, the Hungarian National Assembly. Democracy became reality in the Republic of Hungary between 1987 and 1989, which led to the formation of a multi-tier system. The four most important political parties that determined the formation of the Hungarian political system, were the Federation of Young Democrats – Hungarian Civic Party, Hungarian Socialist Party, Alliance of Free Democrats and Hungarian Democratic Forum.
