RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE  1 March 2000

RIFT EMERGES IN HUNGARIAN COALITION OVER MEDIA BOARD
APPOINTMENTS. The parliament on 29 February failed to
appoint a media board for the Hungaria Television Public
Foundation, which oversees Duna TV. Two deputies
representing the Independent Smallholders' Party abstained
from voting, and deputies representing the Hungarian
Democratic Forum did not participate in the ballot,
Hungarian media reported. Forum chairwoman Ibolya David
told "Nepszabadsag" that "the time has come for consensus
politics" to replace confrontation and that she supports a
Free Democratic Party proposal to hold further talks on
nominees to media boards. Earlier, the parliament approved
an incomplete National Radio and Television Board (see
"RFE/RL Newsline," 29 February 2000). MS

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