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After the 2010 local elections, held on the 3rd of October, Katalin Szili founded the Social Union and became its first chairperson.

As a result, she quit the Hungarian Socialist Party and their parliamentarian group.

Continuing the parliamentarian work as formally independent MP.

Gábor Ivády left the LMP faction on 21 October 2010.

Lajos Pősze was expelled from the Jobbik faction and became independent in December 2010 because of his comments distancing himself from the Hungarian Guard Movement.

On 22 October, 2011 Ferenc Gyurcsány and 9 other lawmakers quit the MSZP and its parliamentary group and founded Democratic Coalition.

The new party will not be allowed to form a new party faction until the spring after leaving the Socialist Party faction, parliament ’ s Constitutional and Procedural Committee decided on 7 November 2011.

According the parliamentary rules, any parliamentarian that leaves or is expelled from a party faction must sit as an independent candidate for six months before joining another faction.