Ferenc Gyurcsány
prime minister of Hungary
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history of Hungary
- In Hungary: Political developments
…succeeded in late 2004 by Ferenc Gyurcsány, a onetime party bureaucrat who made a fortune in the free-for-all business activities in the 1990s, including profiteering from the privatization of Hungarian state assets. In elections in 2006, the Gyurcsány-led Socialist–Free Democrats coalition became the first government to win consecutive terms since…
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Hungarian Socialist Party
- In Hungarian Socialist Party
…“secret speech” by Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány to MSzP in which he admitted to the party’s failure to address the country’s economic problems and to its mendacity in process. After the Hungarian economy was perched on the brink of disaster in 2008, Gyurcsány resigned in 2009, and the MSzP was…
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