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Subject: AGORA-SCMPOST RFE/RL Daily Report 15 DEC, 1992 (excerpts)
Date: 15 Dec 92 16:06:47 GMT
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HUNGARIAN DEMOCRATIC FORUM RESHUFFLE. The presidium of the
ruling Hungarian Democratic Forum held a meeting on 11
December, MTI reports. The main topic of discussion appears to
have been the tensions within the party caused by the essay
published in August by Istvan Csurka, then one of the six vice
chairmen of the HDF.  His essay demanded stronger party and
government actions against the former communist nomenklatura
and was fraught with anti-Semitic references. The presidium,
which heard recommendations from an ad hoc investigating
committee, evidently opted to restructure the hierarchy by
eliminating all vice chairmanships.  Laszlo Medgyasszay, press
secretary of the forum, later told journalists that, looking
to its next congress in January, the 21-member presidium has
assumed the responsibilities of the vice chairmen who will,
nevertheless, remain presidium members.  Lajos Fur remains
executive chairman of the party and is in charge of preparing
for the congress.  (Judith Pataki, RFE/RL, Inc.)
 
SCENE IN ROMANIAN SENATE.  Three of the main opposition
parties demonstratively left the Senate chamber on 14
December, Radio Bucharest and Rompres report. The National
Peasant Party Christian Democrat, the Party of Civic Alliance
and the H
ngarian Democratic Federation of Romania (HDFR)
senators left the hall after the leader of the
extreme-nationalist Greater Romania Party, Corneliu Vadim
Tudor, demanded that the HDFR and the Timisoara Society be
outlawed.  He read in the chamber a letter sent from Budapest
by three Hungarian citizens, alleging that on the occasion of
the celebrations marking the third anniversary of the
revolution, members of the HDFR and the Timisoara society plan
to stage actions said to be dangerous for Romania's
territorial integrity.  (Michael Shafir, RFE/RL, Inc.)
 
IMF REPRESENTATIVES IN HUNGARY. A delegation of the
International Monetary Fund led by Gerard Belanger, deputy
chairman of the European Section, has started talks at the
Ministry of Finance in Budapest, MTI reported on 14 December.
They will also hold talks with the Hungarian National Bank on
the Hungarian budget and its macroeconomic implications and
especially the high budget deficit. Meanwhile, the Financial
Times reports that IMF directors met in Washington the same
day to consider ways to revoke the membership of the former
state of Yugoslavia in a way that would permit applications to
the IMF and the World Bank from Slovenia and Croatia to be
favorably entertained while at the same time excluding Serbia,
which is viewed as the aggressor in the civil war. (Judith
Pataki & Charles Trumbull, RFE/RL, Inc.)
 
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