Szabad Kapacitás, 1992 (4. évfolyam, 1-10. szám)

1992 / 1. szám (angol)

The Programme Declaration of the

INDEPENDENT HUNGARIAN INITIATIVE

Károly Tóth

The Independent Hungarian Initi

ative (IHI) is a parly like political

movement. It was for the first time

in the history, when we started a re

volution with the Czech and Slovak

democratic forces, against the tota

litarian state.

We are convinced, that a real de

mocracy come into being in Cze

choslovakia and Middle Europe

only, if the here living small nations

hold together and fight together for

human, civil and collective national

rights of their members. We express

our intentions for collaboration with

all those inland and foreign democ

ratic forces, which consider the free

dom of the individual, tolerance and

solidarity for their most important

worthes.

The only source of the power is the

people. The IHI is aspiring to create

and safeguard the plural parlamen-

tary democracy in the political life.

We believe, that a real democracy

can be based only on differenciated

political conditions and after an

epoche of collectivist ideologies,

only on the freedom of the individu

al.

The economic aim of the IHI is to

create the market-economy, assure

the freedom of the enterprise and

the equality of the forms of owners

It is necessary to clear up the con

ditions and rights of the ownership

to the public, not to transform the

previous power into private property

by the former economic bureauc

racy.

The culture is free! The dependen

ce of education, science and other

parts of culture on ideology have to

be stopped.

The Church have to be free from

politics. The IHI wants to reach the

freedom of religious education and

new laws regulating the Churches.

The reorganisation of the institution

system, press- and book-edition, res

titution of the buildings and writings.

The Christian people have to get

back that dignity, estimation and res

pect, which is due to every citizen.

The aim of the IHI in the social fi

eld is to safeguard the social secu

rity. The financial safety is an acces

sory of human dignity. We have to

create a new social insurance system,

which guarantees the living, the insu

rance of free medical care for those,

who are reduced to it and state assis

tance for the education of disand-

vantaged children.

Our rights exist not because we

get them from other people, but be

cause of our existence. The aim of

the IHI is the state of law. Everyone

is allowed to enforce his human and

civil rights, freedom of personality

and speech. The press, research and

education must be free. All the state

is established by citizens to defende

their freedom and security. The pur

pose is the restriction of central sta

tepower (can be also democratic)

and the strengthening of the local

self-governments. The right is there,

where there arethe right-creating

people . For this reason let’s enforce

our rights without fear. Let’s claim

them stately even, if the injustice and

the power structure still hinder it.

The IHI is aspiring to create new

relations between the Slovak nation

and the Hungarian and other natio

nal minorities, based on mutual res

pect and understanding. Our purpo

se is to form such politcal compro

mises between Slovak and Hungari

an democrats in Slovakia, which in

sure the free development of the na

tional minority and the internal sta

bility of the state. We would like to

promote the pulling-down of many

prejudices formed between Hungari

ans and Slovaks. The development

of the attitude, which relies not only

on most positive traditions of the

history of the nations, but l.rnvcly lo

oks against the negative inheritance,

is very important. The revision of

the past, based on the most positive

European worth-system is necessary

for gaining ground of that thinking,

which doesn't look upon the democ-

ratisation as a real democracy witho

ut the freedom of nations and natio

nal minorities. The right is deriving

from the public will and the majority

looks upon the effectual minority

protection as its duty. The IHI, as a

minority political movement assists

the liber^a] principle of free evolution

of the culture. We believe-, that the

European states have to enable the

freedom of their citizens and their

free cultural developmenl. In this

process we attach importance to the

decentralisation of the state autho

rity and strengthening of the local

self-governments. The IHI attaches

also importance to making the poli

tical, economic and cultural coope

ration between nations and states

more close, to solve the conflicts

with respectation of the human and

civil rights ano rHyrng on political

goodwill.

7th February, 1990