round but lost the run-off. In October 2022, the party became an associate member of the Party of European Socialists. Ideology and international relations Party leader and former Prime Minister of Hungary Ferenc Gyurcsány is a supporter of Third Way politics. The party platform also adopted elements of social liberalism and strongly pro-European themes. During the 2019 European Parliament election campaign, the leader of the Democratic Coalition's EP list, Klára Dobrev, announced to the press, that during her party's mandates, they would pursue to build the United States of Europe, thus making her party a European federalist as well. During the campaign, DK included several centre-left proposals in its Platform, including action against child poverty, an EU-wide minimum pension, an EU minimum wage, a new EU tax on multinational corporations and EU funds for affordable housing, thus moving to a more social democratic program. The party is not a member of any European political party; however, its MEPs are members of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D). Following the 2019 European election, the Democratic Coalition dismissed an invitation to join the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and chose to remain in the S&D group. Election results National Assembly European Parliament Local Elections Angéla Németh – Budapest XV District (since 2018) József Tóth – Polgár (since 2014) Imre László – Budapest XI District (since 2019) Péter Niedermüller – Budapest VII District (since 2019) Ilona Szücsné Posztovics – Tatabánya (since 2019) László Kiss Dr - Budapest III District (since 2020) Sándor Szaniszló - Budapest XVIII District (since 2020) Tibor Déri - Budapest IV District (since 2022) References External links Democratic Coalition official website Political parties established in 2011 2011 establishments in Hungary Left-wing parties in Europe Left-wing populism Liberal parties in Hungary Parties represented in the European Parliament Populist parties Pro-European political parties in Hungary Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats Progressive parties Social liberal parties Hungarian Socialist Party breakaway groups Ferenc Gyurcsány Opposition to Viktor Orbán