COMMUNIST YOUTH LEADER GYURCSÁNY AGAINST FIDESZ

’Viktor Orbán had a promising role in the great changes of 1989-90’, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány has said recently in the parliament but as a leader of the Communist Youth League at that time he had different thoughts according to the documents in the possession of Magyar Nemzet.

’The Communist Youth League, including Ferenc Gyurcsány, regarded Fidesz as a hostile organization that could not be integrated’, historian Olivér Fráter said. He excluded the possibility that the documents had been faked. The documents were found in the archives of Barany county. One of the leaders of the Administrative Department of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party urging police repressions was András Tóth, now political state secretary responsible for civil national security services. The reports of the Communish Youth League leaders show the combined methods used to intimidate and disintegrate opposition movemnets by subversive methods approved by the Political Committee of the state party.

Government spokesman András Batiz claims the documents show that Ferenc Gyurcsány wanted a political solution in 1988 though he would not exclude the possibility of using existential threat and police repression as an option for political solution.

Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó