In 1998 as the minister of justice of Hungary she didn't sign off on the presidential pardon of Peter Kunos bank CEO, even though the approval for presidential pardons was previously thought to be customary, and always done by the current minister of justice.

Due to the lack of approval the pardon didn't come into effect.

After the MDF fraction was disbanded, Dávid was a member of the Hungarian Parliament as an independent.

Dávid made the controversial decision to nominate Lajos Bokros, a former minister in Gyula Horn's MSZP government, to the European Parliament election on the MDF party list which led to some members leaving the party.

In the 2010 parliamentary election the Hungarian Democratic Forum continued its downward trend and missed the 5% electoral threshold, leaving it shut out of parliament.