FEDERATION OF YOUNG DEMOCRATS (FIDESZ)

FIDESZ was founded in 1988 by a group of students in the Law Faculty. Many were only undergraduates at the time. They edited a journal, Szazadveg (End of the Century), that has become a major influence in intellectual circles in Hungary. Several of the party's representatives in parliament are in their early twenties, and the party has quickly earned a reputation for being well-prepared in parliamentary debates. As some of its leadership moved out of their late twenties, FIDESZ was forced to reconsider its organizational regulation of excluding members over thirty years of age. The party has now reprofiled itself as a right of center European liberal party.