1989. január (1-18. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
Ijfc©cuSls^3 @mL Editor: György Krassó » 24/D Little Russell Street * London, WC1A 2HN ‘ Tel. 01-430 2126 (írom abroad 441-430 2126) 13/1989 (E) 13th January, 1989 "Parliamentary Reports" "We live in times of reform and we feel that we must be aided by the pást and so we must revive Kossuth’s ideas" - so said Dr György Ruttner to the Hungárián October Information Centre. He is the leader of the Young Lavyers Club and, since yesterday moming, the editor of a new paper. The paper is new bút the name is nőt, Parliamentary Reports was the name of a handwritten weekly paper started by Lajos Kossuth in 1823 and the original tiüe graces the cover of the new paper. The editors asked fór permission to publish in various offices, the Press Chief Administration and the Council of Ministers Office, the Parliamentary Press Office and István Stadinger the President of the Parliament,bút they all refused. However the paper appeared legally in 50 000 copies; the editors (young lawyers) ascertain that special publications do nőt need official permission. After they had affirmed their half a millión bank guarantee the Budapest Szikra Press were willing to print it and three weeks after the idea was bőm, yesterday, the first edition of Parliamentary Reports appeared on the streets of Budapest. The paper which bears the Kossuth arms is sixteen pages long and costs 18 forints. Although the Post Office were nőt willing to deliver them they engaged "amateur" news vendors who sold 20 000 copies in one day. Subscription is alsó possible and Dr György Ruttner hopes that it can soon become an official paper supported by Imre Pozsgay Minister of State and Dr Jenő Andics the leader of the Hungárián Socialist Workers Party Central Committee’s Agitprop Department. Until such a time it can be bought at Vécsey Street 4 III floor, a priváté fiat in which the edit- orial Office operates. Parliamentary Reports is run by unpaid workers, young lavyers and joumalists, and its publishing house is the Psychoteam Menta! Hygiene Methodology Centre which recently published a catalogue of independent organisations entitled "Inventory". The plán to launch the paper was initiated by the Young Lawyers Club’s Representátive Advice Service. a body of sixty people which voluntarily aids the advance of lay M.P.s. The paper will publish what has been said in Parliament on the following day and hopes to inform the nation of all that happens in Parliament word fór word without editing, cutting or selection. Parliamentary Reports does nőt call itself an independent paper. Today in its 2>4-page second edition its leading article reads: "We state that we are nőt independent because we are pledged to producing genuine information and to reporting honestly as this can contribute to wide-ranging, genuine social progress. At the same time we are pledged to out profession and are regulated by our consciences which determine the sphere of our activities. We are pledged to the creation of a constitutional state and to the struggle fór the establishment of a democratic society to which we want to contribute. We are pledged to national traditions which can both give force to our society and hold it in check by preventing anarchy and extricating us from the present crisis. We are pledged to catching up with the rest of Europe. That is whyifcisof primary importance to us that the public is quickly, precisely and continuously informed of the decisions which affect them and of the origin of these decisions. A new standard of information is crucial to our nation". Subscribers can use or quote the Hungárián October newsletters in totál or in detail as long as the source is acknowledged.
