From: FEKETE@bcvms.bc.edu (Zoli Fekete)
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Subject: AGORA-SCMPOST RFE/RL Daily Report 29 SEP, 1992 (excerpts)
Date: 29 Sep 1992 07:55:42 -0500
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PARTIAL RESULTS IN ROMANIAN ELECTIONS. Latest figures released by
the National Statistics Board on 29 September (as of 3:00 a.m.)
confirm forecasts from exit polls made by a German and a Romanian
survey institute two days before. The partial results, based on
complete counts from roughly 65% of all stations, show the
incumbent Ion Iliescu leading in the presidential race with 47.3%.
He is followed by Emil Constantinescu from the centrist Democratic
Convention (DC) with 31.2%; Gheorghe Funar from the nationalist
Party of Romanian National Unity (PRNU) with 11%; Caius Traian
Dragomir from the National Salvation Front (NSF) with 4.7%; Ion
Manzatu from the Republican Party with 3.1%; and Mircea Druc, an
independent, with 2.8%. Though a runoff between Iliescu and
Constantinescu on 11 October seems inevitable, the former's
reelection appears almost certain.  The results also show the
Democratic National Salvation Front (DNSF), the party backing
Iliescu, as leading the vote for the 143-seat Senate with 28.6%
and for the 328-seat Chamber of Deputies with 27.6%. It is
followed by the DC with 18.6% and 18.7%, respectively; the NSF
(10.2% for both); the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (9.1%
and 8.9%); the PRNU (8.2% and 7.8%); the Greater Romania Party
(3.7% and 3.8%); the Democratic Agrarian Party (3.3% and 3%); and
the Socialist Labor Party, the reborn communist party (3.2% and
3%).  Most analysts see a coalition government looming, and
believe that the DNSF might form a alliance with nationalist and
leftist parties.  (Dan Ionescu, RFE/RL Inc.)
 
PROCEEDINGS STARTED IN 1956 HUNGARIAN KILLINGS.  Hungarian TV
reported on 27 September that the Christian Democratic People's
Party (CDPP) has initiated proceedings against those who ordered
soldiers to fire into a crowd at Mosonmagyarovar during the 1956
Revolution.  Some 100 died and 200 were injured.  A 25-page brief
has been filed at the Gyor-Sopron County chief prosecutor's office
by two lawyers for the CDPP, against the former officials, who not
only have not been punished but currently receive substantial
state pensions.  The chief prosecutor turned the case over to the
military court in Gyor.  This is the first attempt by a political
party to press legal charges for a crime under the communist
regime but that has not yet been prosecuted. A law allowing
prosecution of such crimes was ruled unconstitutional by the
Constitutional Court earlier this year. The CDPP argues that 1956
offenses constitute war crimes and as such do not fall under the
statute of limitation.  (Judith Pataki, RFE/RL Inc.)
 
MEDIA WAR AT HUNGARIAN TV CONTINUES. According to Hungarian media
reports on 28 September, the president of Hungarian TV, Elemer
Hankiss, has fired Palfy G.  Istvan, the progovernment chief
editor of two influential news programs.  The decision is expected
to increase the tensions between the government and Hankiss, who
was dismissed earlier this year by Prime Minister Jozsef Antall.
President Arpad Goncz has repeatedly refused to sign Hankiss's
dismissal.  Hankiss claims that Palfy's programs were not
objective and failed to live up to "European standards." Only one
progovernment chief editor remains at the state-owned TV.  (Judith
Pataki, RFE/RL Inc.)

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