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2006 Protests In Hungary
The 2006 protests in Hungary were a series of anti-government protests triggered by the release of Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány's private speech in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, and had done nothing worth mentioning in the previous four years of governing. Most of the events took place in Budapest and other major cities between 17 September and 23 October. It was the first sustained protest in Hungary since 1989. Day 0: Sunday, September 17, 2006 Audio recording On September 17, 2006, an audio recording surfaced from a closed-door MSZP meeting which was held on May 26, 2006, in which Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány made a speech, notable for its obscene language, including the following excerpt (censored version): There is not much choice. There is not, because we screwed up. Not a little, a lot. No European country has done something as boneheaded as we have. Evidently, we lie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
György Ekrem-Kemál
György Ekrem-Kemál (29 June 1945 – 12 June 2009) was a Hungary, Hungarian nationalism, nationalist, "Arrow_Cross_Party#Ideology, Hungarist", far-right_politics, far-right politician, political figure, and leader of several organizations associated with Neo-Nazism and antisemitism. Life Ekrem-Kemál was born to a Turkish-Hungarian father and a Hungarian mother. His father, Ekrem Kemál, was a prominent figure in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, 1956 Hungarian Revolution as a "Széna tér" revolutionary against Soviet Union, Soviet forces. He was executed for his role in the uprising, and is widely considered a martyr amongst the Hungarian far-right_politics, far-right. György Ekrem-Kemál died on June 12, 2009 after a long battle with lung cancer. Political Activities On 20 April 1994 (Adolf_Hitler, Hitler's birthday), Ekrem-Kemál, already a well-known figure in Hungarian far-right circles (mostly due to his father), co-founded the Hungarian Hungarist Movement ( hu, Magya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democratic People's Party (Hungary)
The Christian Democratic People's Party ( hu, Kereszténydemokrata Néppárt, KDNP) is a right-wing Christian democratic political party in Hungary. It is officially a coalition partner of the ruling party, Fidesz, but is mostly considered a satellite party of Fidesz, and has been unable to get into the Parliament on its own since the 1990s (with the last time it did so being 1994), being unable to pass the election threshold of 5% of the vote. Without Fidesz, its support is now low enough that it can no longer be measured, and even a leading Fidesz politician, János Lázár, stated that Fidesz does not consider the government to be a coalition government. History The party was founded under the name of KDNP on 13 October 1944 by Hungarian Catholic statesmen, intellectuals and clergy, and was a successor to the pre-war United Christian Party. Among the founders were Bishop Vilmos Apor, Béla Kovrig (president of the University of Cluj-Napoca), , Count József Pálffy, ethno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
József Petrétei
József Petrétei (born 10 October 1958) is former Minister of Justice in Hungary. The office was renamed to Ministry of Justice and Law Enforcement after the 2006 election. He is involved in controversial plans to allow possession of pornographic material involving people between 14 and 18, created and used exclusively by the participants. However, there is no plan to change the existing law (Hungarian Penal Code 195/A. §) that prohibits people over 18 to take, share or circulate pictures of people under 18, therefore much of the controversy derives from misinformation. During his ministership, the 2006 protests took place in Hungary, which were a series of anti-government protests triggered by the release of Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány's private speech in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, and had done nothing worth mentioning in the previous four years of governing. Most of the events took place in Buda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferenc Gyurcsány
Ferenc Gyurcsány (; born 4 June 1961) is a Hungarian entrepreneur and politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 2004 to 2009. Prior to that, he held the position of Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports between 2003 and 2004. He was nominated as Prime Minister by the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) on 25 August 2004, after Péter Medgyessy resigned due to a conflict with the Socialist Party's coalition partner. Gyurcsány was elected Prime Minister on 29 September 2004 in a parliamentary vote (197 yes votes, 12 no votes, with most of the opposition in Parliament not voting). He led his coalition to victory in the 2006 parliamentary election, securing another term as Prime Minister. His legitimacy was permanently questioned by opposition parties based on his withholding of information about the actual budget deficit in his 2006 re-election campaign. He was also criticised for using derogatory terms for his own country in his speech in Balatonőszöd. After that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
György Budaházy
György Budaházy (born 3 June 1969) is a Hungary, Hungarian nationalist and far-right activist. Education and early life Budaházy was born in Budapest on 3 June 1969. His early years were spent in the Kelenföld housing estate. After graduating from the Antal Budai Nagy high school ( hu, Budai Nagy Antal Gimnázium), he studied mechanical engineering at the Budapest University of Technology. He graduated in 1992, but did not work as an engineer; instead, he studied at the Budapest Business School. Around that time, he joined the center-right Hungarian Democratic Forum political party. Public life He founded in 2006, together with László Toroczkai the Hunnia organization. This organization rejects both the accession of Hungary to the European Union in 2004 and the Treaty of Trianon, and calls for a Greater Hungary (political concept), Greater Hungary with borders as they were before 1920. Budaházy was known with his new organization by numerous acts of violence with Molo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
László Toroczkai
László Toroczkai (born László Tóth, 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian politician, journalist, leader of the Our Homeland Movement political party, and former mayor of Ásotthalom. He is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He is also a founding member of the HVIM youth organization, the ''Hunnia'' national radical movement, and former Vice President of Jobbik. Between 2002 and 2013 he served as editor-in-chief of the '' Magyar Jelen'' newspaper. Family The Treaty of Trianon heavily impacted on his family. Ancestors from his mother's side were expelled from Rimetea and Cluj-Napoca; ancestors from his father's side were expelled from Sombor and Odžaci. As a fearful judge, one of his great-grandfathers, , had a major role in the aftermath of the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and was widely condemned for presiding over some of the notorious show trials. It was he who convicted Mária Wittner among others. Conservative right author Anna Tuts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Orbán
Viktor Mihály Orbán (; born 31 May 1963) is a Hungarian politician who has served as prime minister of Hungary since 2010, previously holding the office from 1998 to 2002. He has presided over Fidesz since 1993, with a brief break between 2000 and 2003. Orbán studied at the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University and briefly at the University of Oxford before entering politics in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989. He headed the reformist student movement the Alliance of Young Democrats (), the nascent Fidesz. Orbán became nationally known after giving a speech in 1989 in which he openly demanded that Soviet troops leave the country. After the end of Communism in Hungary in 1989 and the country's transition to multiparty democracy the following year, he was elected to the National Assembly and led Fidesz's parliamentary caucus until 1993. Under his leadership, Fidesz shifted away from its original centre-right, classical liberal, pro-European platform toward right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constitution Protection Office (Hungary) ...
The Constitution Protection Office ( Hungarian: "''Alkotmányvédelmi Hivatal''", "''AH''") is a Hungarian internal security intelligence agency, formerly known as ''Nemzetbiztonsági Hivatal'' (en. Office of National Security). Its primary responsibilities are: counterintelligence, anticorruption, economic security and related proactive measures. The ''AH'' also leads investigations against organized crime and deals with (mainly internal) threats against society (such as subversion). AH is active since 2010. General Directors Dr. Bárdos Szabolcs External linksinternet page of the AH References {{National intelligence agencies Hungarian intelligence agencies National security institutions Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law Enforcement And Public Safety Service
{{unreferenced, date=October 2021 ''Law Enforcement and Public Safety Service'' ( Hungarian "Rendészeti Biztonsági Szolgálat") is a part of the Hungarian National Police which is very similar to Western-European ''Gendarmerie''-type police forces. Character The abbreviation of the organisation is REBISZ or RBSZ. It is an independent within the framework of the National Police of the Republic of Hungary, subordinated to the Ministry of Justice, formerly to the Ministry of the Interior. It has no connection with the Volunteer Army of Hungary, unlike certain police forces in Europe called ''gendarmerie'', although its members are trained in a military way, and it must be mentioned that the Hungarian Police itself is organised according to military principles; for example, policemen and detectives have military ranks. Duties The RBSZ is a kind of special police force that supports traditional police forces very often. It was created with the integration of four formerly independen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rendőrség
The ''Rendőrség'' (English: Police) is the national civil law enforcement agency of Hungary and is governed by the Interior Ministry. History Until 2006, the police operated under the authority of the Ministry of Interior. From 2006 to 2010, the Ministry of Justice and Law Enforcement was the governing body of the police, which absorbed the Border Guard on December 31, 2007.In 2010, the government reinstated the Interior Ministry. The police have national headquarters in the capital but otherwise operate through its county commands. Other national bodies include the National Bureau of Investigation (modeled after the FBI), Counter-terrorism Centre (TEK, an elite commando of heavily armed officers), and KR (Riot police and Rapid Response Unit, Propaganda bureau a civil law enforcement agency). On July 1, 2010, the government decided to set up the Counter-terrorism Center, which was responsible for preventing terrorist attacks, protecting government officials, and serving a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance Of Free Democrats
The Alliance of Free Democrats – Hungarian Liberal Party ( hu, Szabad Demokraták Szövetsége – a Magyar Liberális Párt, SZDSZ) was a liberal political party in Hungary. The SZDSZ was a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party and of Liberal International. It drew its support predominantly from Budapest among the middle classes, liberal intellectuals and entrepreneurs, with an ideological basis in social and economic liberalism. SZDSZ provided the first freely elected President for the Third Hungarian Republic, Árpád Göncz. The SZDSZ High Mayor of Budapest, Gábor Demszky was in office continuously since 1990 till 2010, when he was replaced by István Tarlós (who himself was a member of SZDSZ in the 1990s). History The party's origins lay in the illegal democratic opposition under the communist rule of János Kádár. This gave rise to the loosely organized Network of Free Initiatives (''Szabad Kezdeményezések Hálózata'') on 1 May 1988 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian Socialist Party
The Hungarian Socialist Party ( hu, Magyar Szocialista Párt), commonly known by its acronym MSZP, is a centre-left social-democratic and pro-European political party in Hungary. It was founded on 7 October, 1989 as a post-communist evolution and one of two legal successors of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP). Along with its conservative rival Fidesz, MSZP was one of the two most dominant parties in Hungarian politics until 2010; however, the party lost much of its popular support as a result of the Őszöd speech, the consequent 2006 protests, and then the 2008 financial crisis. Following the 2010 election, MSZP became the largest opposition party in parliament, a position it held until 2018, when it was overtaken by the right-wing Jobbik. History The MSZP evolved from the communist Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (or MSZMP), which ruled Hungary between 1956 and 1989. By the summer of 1989, the MSZMP was no longer a Marxist–Leninist party, and had been take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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