EIGHT CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENCY IN PUBLIC RADIO

Miklós Györffi prepares for the ’extermination of rats’. The presidium of the board of trustees of the Hungarian Radio public endowment will hear eight candidates for the presidency on September 12. Yesterday in the morning programme of TV 2 anchorman Henrik Havas had an interview with one of the candidates, Miklós Györffi, anchor of the Hungarian Radio.

Havas said he had no nostalgic feelings for his one-time working place, he always remembered the noon toll followed by the story of the bells which ’drove him mad’. Miklós Györffi said he wanted to enter the ring because the listeners deserved a better public service for their money. He claimed the institution resembled to a ramshackle building where there were rats and dubious existences and it was necessary to exterminate them.

According to press sources among the candidates for presidency one can find Gábor Balogh, lawyer, Béla Benedikty, former radio editor, Béla Szomráky, former head of a radio editorial staff, János Hollós, vice president of the Hungarian Radio, István Pálffy, anchor of the news programme of the public television, László Benda, head of the foreign policy section of MTV, Gyula Világi, editor of MTV, Alex Avanesian, deputy editor-in-chief of the regional programmes of the public radio, Györgyi B. Király and János Fodor, anchors of the public radio, Erik Siklós, reporter of the radio and József Szayly, deputy editor-in-chief of Petőfi channel of the public radio.

Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó