Round Table Talks
The FMDP was revived in Budapest on 5 May 1989, after the end of communism in 1989–90, but remained an unsuccessful extra-parliamentary organization. During its first congress, István Neff, godson of the late Balogh, was elected leader of the party. In May 1990, he was replaced by journalist and sports official Gyula Kovár. The FMDP did not participate in the Hungarian Round Table Talks, it became only an observer at the National Round Table Talks after 10 June 1989. The party, along with the Transylvanian Alliance, the National Alliance of Hungarian Political Prisoners (Pofosz) and the re-founded MFP, protested against this decision by sending a joint petition to Speaker Mátyás Szűrös, ineffectively. On 22 November 1989, the FMDP, alongside independent MPs and other re-established "historic" parties, expressed its support to the reform-Communist government of Miklós Németh and did not support the dissolution of the parliament.