Századok – 2001

TANULMÁNYOK - Cieger András: A bizalmatlanság kora - Lónyay Menyhért a kormány élén I/61

102 CIEGER ANDRÁS Yet the final conclusion of the study is that the quick fall of Lónyai (he spent only a year at the head of the government) was on the last account not caused by the accusations of corruption (although this view lived on in posterity). In fact, it was the period when the government and party structure of a modern democratic state began to develop in Hungary. And in such a period of transition political trust towards the leaders of the country vanished especially fast.