RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE  4 October 1999

BUDAPEST MAYOR TO SUE EXTREMIST LEADER. Gabor Demszky, a
member of the opposition Free Democrats (SZDSZ), will file
suit against Istvan Csurka, chairman of the extreme-right
Hungarian Justice and Life Party (MIEP), Hungarian media
reported on 4 October. In a newspaper article last week,
Csurka accused Demszky of having been an informer for the
communist secret services. Demszky denied that allegation and
reminded reporters that he has been screened and deemed to
have a clean past. SZDSZ National Council chairman Balint
Magyar said "the affair is not simply about Csurka," as the
major coalition party FIDESZ "gets MIEP to do their dirty
work." MSZ

ROMANIAN OPPOSITION PROTESTS AGAINST 'RECONCILIATION PARK.'
The Party of Social Democracy in Romania (PDSR) and the
Greater Romania Party on 1 October criticized the
government's intention to create together with the Hungarian
government a "park of historic reconciliation" in Arad (see
"RFE/RL Newsline," 27 September 1999), RFE/RL's Bucharest
bureau reported. The PDSR said that a monument to displayed
in the park commemorating the 13 Hungarian generals executed
by the Austrians in 1848 has "a profound anti-national and
anti-Romanian character." PDSR First Deputy Chairman Adrian
Nastase said the ruling coalition is an "accomplice in
serving the interests of Hungarian revisionism." On 4
October, the Vatra romaneasca cultural organization is to
protest the planned monument, which it called "a symbol of
the Hungarian state." MS

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