RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE  17 January 2000

FIDESZ ASKS ADER NOT TO RUN FOR PARTY CHAIRMANSHIP. The
steering board of the Federation of Young Democrats --
Hungarian Civic Party's (FIDESZ) parliamentary group on 14
January asked parliament speaker Janos Ader not to accept a
nomination for the post of party chairman, Hungarian media
reported. Spokesman Zsolt Horvath said the group believes
that an "outstanding speaker is a guarantee of effective
parliamentary work, and we consider Ader to be such." Ader
said he considers the request "honorable and worth
considering." MSZ

HUNGARIAN EXTREMISTS COMMEMORATES WARTIME PREMIER. Budapest's
St. Stephen's Basilica was almost filled to capacity during a
mass on 16 January organized by the extremist Hungarian
Justice and Life Party (MIEP) in memory of wartime Prime
Minister Laszlo Bardossy (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 11 January
2000). Piarist priest Istvan Havas said Bardossy "had to make
tough decisions in which he was guided by keeping the unity
of the nation in mind." Bardossy declared war on the allied
powers and was executed for war crimes in 1946. Under his
government a package of anti-Jewish laws were passed which
banned mixed marriages and even physical intimacy between
Jews and non-Jews. MSZ

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