Hungarian party ‘not yet dead’
NZPA-Reuter Budapest Hungarian hardliners, furious with their leaders for abolishing the ruling Communist Party, say the party is not yet? dead. They say the Western-style socialist party which replaced it would be a mere shadow of its predecessor. Delegates at an extraordinary party congress last week-end voted overwhelmingly to kill off the Communist Party which ruled Hungary for four decades and was formally called the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party (H.S.W.P.). From the ashes of the old organisation they voted to create a new Hungarian
Socialist Party, committed to bringing in multi-party democracy and a free economy. Members of the old party must sign up by the end of this month if they wish to be included in the new organisation. But Robert Ribanszki, a former Ambassador to China and secretary to the late Communist Party chief, Janos Radar, who led Hungary from 1956 to 1988, said he believed the new party would keep only a fraction of the old party’s 725,000 members. “The Hungarian Socialist Party will be very happy if it can get 100,000 members,” he told Reuters.
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