He calls himself a conservative and capitalizes on the respectable name of the Smallholders Party that had Hungary's lower middle class as its core.

In 1931 Gyöngyösi joined the Smallholders Party.

The leaders of the Smallholders Party were mainly members of the middle class and their political views varied from liberals to socialists.

In elections held in November 1945, the Smallholders Party won 57% of the vote.

The communists gradually gained control of the government and by 1948 the Smallholders Party ceased to exist as an independent organization.

In February 1947 the police began arresting leaders of the Smallholders Party, charging them with "conspiracy against the Republic".

The resuscitated Smallholders Party, a major one before World War II, says it has 22,000 members.

Dr. Ham and 45 other members of the Smallholders Party were put on trial by the Communists three months later.

He returned to public life in 1945 when the Smallholders Party was reformed.

He became representative as member of the Smallholders Party in 1939.