The Fidesz and its coalition partner Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) unilaterally approved the new bill, using their two-thirds majority, ignoring the left-wing opposition's (MSZP and LMP) protests, while Jobbik voted against it.

[19] In October 2011, a group of members of the MSZP around former Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány left the party and founded the Democratic Coalition (DK) after one year of tension and disagreement.

[20] Since its establishment and 2010 national election, LMP was kept under pressure (for instance, on the occasion of by-elections) by the Hungarian Socialist Party to achieve some kind of electoral compromise and cooperation against Viktor Orbán's government.

Prominent party member András Schiffer also criticized the previous Socialist cabinets, blaming Gyurcsány's "disastrous governance" for Fidesz winning a two-thirds majority in 2010.

[29][30] Gordon Bajnai, who served as Prime Minister between 2009 and 2010, preceding Orbán, announced his return to politics on 23 October 2012, during the anti-government demonstration of the One Million for Press Freedom (Milla) non-governmental organization.

"),[32] when he proclaimed his support for such a "cooperation between hopeful left-wingers, disappointed rightwingers, politically abandoned free-thinkers and committed Greens" that his organization along with two other civilian body named Together 2014 as a reference to the date of the next general elections in Hungary.

[28] In late August 2013, Socialist and Together party leaders agreed to nominate joint individual candidates in each constituency, but would register separate national lists for the upcoming parliamentary election.

Socialist leader Attila Mesterházy told public television M1 that the electoral alliance between the MSZP and the E14–PM on fielding a single centre-left candidate in each individual constituency provides the right basis for success.

[45] Because of Gyurcsány's involvement, Péter Juhász, the leader of the Milla (a component of the Together alliance) offered his resignation and stepped down from his party's national list (but remained an individual candidate in Belváros-Lipótváros).

In the current situation, Hungarian voters can only choose between the politicians who destroyed Hungary in the past 24 years (i.e. Fidesz and left-wing opposition) or Jobbik that will bring a change, spokeswoman Dóra Dúró said.

He added, the green party insists on its original position and offers an alternative to those who wished the Gyurcsány and Bajnai governments "would go to hell" in 2010 and also to those who are now fed up with the "regime of national cynicism."

[48] Antal Rogán, leader of the Fidesz parliamentary group, said the result of the agreement is that the Hungarian left has been unable to nominate "a real prime minister candidate" or "present any new face," according to MTI.

[58] Zsolt Gréczy, the spokesperson of the Democratic Coalition objected to the use of the term "Hungarian Team" in the invitation letters to the forums to describe the activists defending the utility reduction.

He said "the Brussels multinationals, banks and bureaucrats are planning a new attack against Hungarian families but we won't accept this injustice or the double-standards, and will not allow policies serving their greediness and extra profits".

[64] On 16 February, Orbán said in his regular annunal review speech to hundreds of party members and supporters that "we know very well that today there are two paths ahead of us, we must choose between two options, two ideologies and two forces.

"[65] Zsolt Nyitrai, Fidesz's public relations director announced Viktor Orbán, members of the cabinet and MP candidates will start a road show on 10 March 2014 that will take them all around the country in the four weeks till the general election.

Fidesz–KDNP's giant election posters went through a renewal from 10 March and focused on four topics: job protection and workplace creation, the defense of the value of pensions, the continuation of utilities price cuts and keeping a "family-friendly system of subsidies".

[67] Joseph Daul, the President of the European People's Party (EPP), and István Pásztor, the head of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (VMSZ) also attended the event and voiced support for Orbán.

[77] On 26 January 2014, Vona held a rally in London's Hyde Park after hundreds of British anti-fascist demonstrators had prevented Jobbik supporters from accessing a location where he originally planned to speak near Holborn tube station.

Spokesperson Dóra Dúró said VAT on basic child care products will be reduced to 5 percent if the party enters government and parents with two or more children will be granted significant tax cuts.

[84] Schiffer told in February 2014, LMP is "asking for authorization to deliver a green turn" after the election and create crisis-proof jobs, primarily in the most disadvantaged regions of the country.

[85] Modern Hungary Movement (MoMa), founded and led by former Minister of Finance and MEP Lajos Bokros, decided not to participate in the upcoming parliamentary election, because "they do not want to weaken the cooperation of left-wing parties [Unity] with separate candidates."

[92] Gábor Kuncze, leader of the Liberal Civil Union (SZPE) decided to participate in the parliamentary election as an individual candidate of the Democratic Coalition (a member party of the Unity) in Szigetszentmiklós constituency.

American constitutionalist Kim Lane Scheppele wrote "Fidesz politicians refuse to admit that their generosity toward smaller parties served the purpose of confusing voters and weakening the opposition.

József Radics, a key member of the MCP, said that they gathered, but crossed out the invalidation of the registration forms instead of signing them, because "they see themselves as Hungarians first and foremost" and they do not want their only choice to vote for a list that is exclusively ORÖ.

[108] The online edition of daily Magyar Nemzet said that Mesterházy made comments in his 25 January speech about Lőrinc Mészáros, the mayor of Felcsút, calling him "Orbán's procurator, who has multiplied his company's revenues five times over the past three years and today ranks as the 88th richest Hungarian".

[114] On 6 March 2014, János Zuschlag, a former Socialist MP who was recently released from prison for graft after six years, claimed in a new book that he was paid off by MSZP party leaders in 2006 to not run for parliament after resigning in 2004 over a Holocaust joke at an official commemoration.

Zsolt Gréczy, a spokesman for the DK, told MTI that "a criminal" had been interviewed by the head of a research institute close to the Fidesz, Gábor G. Fodor, which was a "strange" attempt at credibility.

On 21 February 2014, the National Election Committee (NVB) registered at first[clarification needed] the joint list of the governing Fidesz–KDNP party alliance, led by PM Viktor Orbán and KDNP president Zsolt Semjén.

[146] Russian President Vladimir Putin also congratulated Orbán on his victory, saying that "we highly esteem constructive and mutually beneficial Russian–Hungarian relations and have an interest in continuing our shared work, in solidifying bilateral cooperation for the benefit of our two nations and for a stable and safe Europe.