Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 1994 (6. évfolyam, 1-50. szám)

1994-05-27 / 21. szám

AMERICAN Hungarian Journal 259 Seats to Be Decided in Election Runoff on May 29 BUDAPEST - In the first leg of the two-round Hungarian general elections, held on May 8, 1994, two seats were won in in­dividual constituencies and 125 from party lists out of the 386 seats of Hungary’s one-chamber Parliament. The race continues until May 29 to win the remaining 259 man­dates, of which 174 will be dis­tributed to individual candidates. (Altogether, there are 176 in­dividual constituencies, but in two of them the first round ended with final results - bringing vic­tory to Socialists in both seats.) Left-over votes cast on party lists in the first round will decide the future of 27 parliamentary seats, which are to be allocated proportionately between the 6 parties that reached a minimum of five per cent of the votes in the first round. Five per cent is the threshold that has to be passed by a party to get into Parliament. The allocation itself is to be car­ried out only after the second round, when all results are known. As many as 58 MPs are to be elected from national party lists, based on the proportion of fractional ballots received by the parties’ individual candidates in the first round. The two types of fractional votes will be added up, processed, and distributed by the National Election committee after the second round. The run-off should give con­clusive results in 174 individual constitutencies where no can­didates received more than half of the valid votes in the first round. The second round will feature candidates who received at least 15 per cent of the valid votes in the first round (if fewer than three candidates poll 15 per cent, the three with the highest numbers of votes), which will be won by the candidate who receives most valid votes. (First round votes will not be added into run-offresults.) Results will be valid in a district if the turn-out is at least 25 per cent plus one voter. In case the turn-out is lower somewhere, by­­elections are expected to follow in 1995. Of the maximum 152 seats ob­tainable through party lists, 125 have been allocated and 27 are to be filled after May 29. Altogether, 259 mandates will be distributed on the basis of the second round. Jeszenszky to Consult on Balladur Plan BUDAPEST - Hungary’s Foreign Ministry has called the foreign affairs experts of the six parliamentary parties to gather on Friday and hear Foreign Min­ister Géza Jeszenszky5 s report on preparations for the European Stability Conference to be held in Paris at the end of May. Gyula Horn Back in the Arena- Those who think the Socialist Party’s excessive winning will turn out to be a liability, are wrong - said Gyula Horn at a campaign meeting in Budapest. He also announced that - if of­fered - he will gladly accept the prime-ministerial candidacy. Mr. Horn participated in a public meeting for the first time since he left the hospital follow­ing his May 5 traffic accident.- We need every single mandate, and every single vote - he said. - We want to take advantage of the opportunity won on May 8, and even achieve absolute majority. Among the main tasks of the new government, he named creating a realistic financial­­economic image of the country, to reach an agreement with repre­sentatives of employee and employer organizations, to define the authority of the President, and increase Parliament’s in­fluence over the government. Regarding his recent accident, Mr. Horn suggested that "the word ’accident’ does not really describe what happened there." Kónya contra HSZP BUDAPEST - After Gyula Horn reiterated his opinion in Sunday’s TV News that his traffic accident may have been inten­tional, Interior Minister Imre Kónya had strong words of criticism for him. 1 This page written by ATA accredited translator SUSAN JANCSO- If a party leader falls victim to a traffic accident only days before the election, it will inevitably lead to conjectures. Many people consider it possible that Horn’s opposition within his own party is behind the matter, all the more so because the Socialist Party tends to profit from it at the elections. The police has no information indicating intentionality. If Mr. Horn has some inside informa­tion suggesting an attempt at his life, then he should - instead of mystifying insinuations - turn the evidence over to the police imme­diately. Kamikaze Govern­­ment Says Sayonara- We had a kamikaze-style government - said Géza Je­szenszky to reporters in Prag. - Our biggest mistake was in the field of communications through the mass media - we have not been able to show our achieve­ments in a positive light, and that’s why we are on the way out. Hungarian radio and television programs show our country in a very unfavorable light to those watching beyond the borders. When asked if the government’s authoritarian ways and the firing of hundreds of media workers could have something to do with the failure, Mr. Jeszenszky said no, because it was not the government’s, nor HDF’s doing. In conclusion, Hungary’s foreign minister declared that no fundamental change is expected in the new government’s foreign policy. Maturity Exams BUDAPEST - Graduating Hungarian high school students have started their comprehensive written maturity exams in Hun­garian language and literature. Although it was high secret before the exams, everyone can look at the million-dollar ques­tions now. The three subjects were: 1. János Arany’s elegies and ballads as expressions of his state of mind in the poetry of the ’50s. 2. Close reading of Endre Ady’s poem, "The Lost Rider" 3. Analytic introduction of a 20th Century Hungarian novel or short story. It doesn’t seem awfully difficult, since every student must have at least one favorite author and work in our century up his sleeve. However, the waves of New Criticism apparently have not yet reached Hungary (which might be a blessing). Professors of Comparative Literature at U.S. universities - since Wellek, Wim­­satt and Beardsley - say who knows what the author felt at the moment of creation? (and who cares? -I might add) Who knows what his intentions were, and * PRÓBÁLJA MEG SZERENCSÉJÉT A ♦ ♦ JÖJJÖN LAKE TAHOE-ra V V Kedvezményes árak! PARKWOOD LODGE 954 Park Ave. So. 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Of rf R EXPIRES MAY 3 1. 1994 OPEN 7 DAYS 12 NOON TO 10 PM 5$20 MELROSE AVENUE (NEAR VINE) « 213 962 6434 Megjelent az L.A. Reader-ben - 1994 május AMERIKAI FPfl Ufagyar %rlap |fl what he alluded to? Not even the author himself is a reliable source, once the work was created, born like a child, to live its own separate life. "States of mind" would seem to be immaterial and irrelevant to our examiners, but let’s hope Hungarian students are better at guesswork into the past. ★*★★★*★★★★*★★★★★*★***★★**★**★*******★*★***★★** The ratio of the 125 party-list seats decided in the first rounc (with the proportion of votes in brackets): 1. Hungarian Socialist Party (HSP): 53 (32.99) 2. Alliance of Free Democrats (AFD): 28 (19.74) 3. Hungarian Democratic Forum (HDF): 18 (11.74) 4. Independent Smallholders’ Party (ISP): 14 (8.82) 5. Federation of Young Democrats (FYD): 7 ( 7.02) 6. Christian Democratic People’s P. (CDPP): 5 ( 7.03) Although these votes will not be added in, numbers of seats where each party was in first place give some idea of how voting might go in the second round. The HSP had candidates in first place in 160 constituencies in the first round, while the AFD had 12, and the HDF and the CDPP one each. **★★***★*★************★****★**★**★★********★*★

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