BUDAPEST : Parliament Convenes
The first freely elected Hungarian Parliament in postwar history convenes Wednesday to name a new prime minister, to set the record straight on the nation’s turbulent past and to chart a democratic course for the future.
As leader of the Hungarian Democratic Forum, which won the most votes in the two-round elections, 58-year-old Joszef Antall is expected to be named prime minister.
The 386-member Parliament is expected to declare the failed 1956 anti-Communist uprising a “war of independence,” then embark on the daunting task of drafting laws to guide the nation’s transition to democracy and market economics.
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