RFE/RL Daily Report
                  No. 133, 15 July 1994


HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER DESIGNATE OUTLINES GOVERNMENT PROGRAM.
Gyula Horn, Chairman of the Hungarian Socialist Party, in
presenting his coalition government program during his inaugural
speech to parliament on 14 July, said ". . . a new [national]
reconciliation is necessary for progress, prosperity and peace",
reported MTI. Horn said the first-ever Hungarian socialist-liberal
coalition government will be an instrument of national unity, and
outlined specific aims of foreign and domestic policy. The
coalition's 72% parliamentary voting majority will not lead to
dictatorship, he said. He did warn, however, that even with the
new parliament, significant rises in living standards could not be
hoped for by the end of this legislature's four-year term. The
country is in a critical economic and financial situation,
drifting toward insolvency, he cautioned. On a personal note, Horn
said that when he put a wreath on the grave of the 1956
revo-lutionary Imre Nagy last month, he also paid tribute to his
own brother who was killed by the revolutionaries and who was also
the victim of 1956. Horn said that a spirit of reconciliation is
needed to avoid and heal divisions. Karoly Okolicsanyi, RFE/RL
Inc.

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