This paper presents the state of the divided oppositional left forces one year before the 2014 parliamentary elections in Hungary. It describes the first pact, which saw daylight in the final days of August 2013, as a fulfillment of the minimum requirements for an electoral victory: the candidates of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) and the Együtt-PM coalition led by ex-prime minister Gordon Bajnai will not run against each other in single-member districts. On the other hand, they will not run on a mutual list and the parties do not have a common prime ministerial candidate.