[2] The FMDP focused on the interests of urban middle class and intellectuals in Budapest, it barely had rural party organizations and branches.
[1] Despite this, the FMDP was the only opposition party which voted in favor of the Communists' three-year plan, nevertheless it rejected the nationalization of banks.
After the election, the MKP and the Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP) prevented that the FMDP merged into the FKGP.
[3] Prior to the 1949 elections the FMDP was forced to join the Communist-led Hungarian Independent People's Front (MFNF).
The Front ran a single list chosen by the Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP), with FMDP members winning 10 seats.
[5] In May 1993, MP Imre Kőrösi, who was expelled from the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF), joined the FMDP, providing parliamentary representation for his new party.