ARE WOMEN WANTED IN POLITICS AT ALL? WOMEN AND POLITICS IN HUNGARY(RESEARCH IDEAS) Infographic 2 The Hungarian government is led by a man, and among the 14 government ministers, there is no single woman (October 2023) The proportion of women within the different political groups of the Hungarian Parliament(2023) Fidesz 14 women out of 116 members KDNP (Christian Democratic People’s Party) 1 woman out of 19 members Democratic Coalition 5 women out of 15 members Momentum 2 women out of 10 members MSZP(Hungarian Socialist Party) 2 women out of 10 members Jobbik no woman out of 8 members Párbeszéd 2 women out of 6 members Mi Hazánk 1 woman out of 6 members LMP 1 woman out of 5 members 14% Of the 199 parliamentary members in the Hungarian Parliament, 28 are women, which is 14% of all members the reasons for the overrepresentation of women in the judiciary is the low salary of court secretaries and drafters compared to other career paths in the legal profession”. 9 In any case, the female majority also exists at the level of the Hungarian Supreme Court, now known as the Curia of Hungary: at the time of writing, there are 58 women members of this 97-member body. 10 This means that the percentage of women in the Curia is currently almost 60%, so the composition of the assembly still meets the international guideline for“gender balance”, according to which no gender should be represented at a proportion lower than 40%. 1.2. RELATED STUDIES The issue of women’s active participation in political life – in relation to the larger, more abstract question of women’s political representation – is self-evidently and traditionally of interest as a social science research topic in Hungary. 7