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	General elections in Hungary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Finally, contrary to the forecasts of opinion polls, the Democratic Forum (MDF), former ally of the Alliance of Young Democrats, succeeded in passing the 5% mark, which is indispensable to gain representation at the Orszaggyules, the Parliament’s single chamber.
		The leader of the Alliance of Young Democrats believes that his party is set to collect 75% of votes during the second round, thereby becoming the sole winner of the general election, an outcome that he considers “possible”.
		On Sunday night the Chair of the Democratic Forum refused to say whether she was envisaging a future alliance for her party with other parties after the vote.
	www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/hongrie/legislatives/resultats.htm (1059 words)

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	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (French: Alliance des Démocrates et des Libéraux pour l'Europe, Dutch: Alliantie van Liberalen en Democraten voor Europa) is a Group in the European Parliament.
		The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is also a political group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
		The meeting of the Parliamentary Group of the liberal democrat European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party which took place in Brussels on July 13, 2004 approved a recommendation to unite in a new group with MEPs of the European Democratic Party founded by François Bayrou's UDF, the Lithuanian Labour Party and the Italian Margherita.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alliance_of_Liberals_and_Democrats_for_Europe (1167 words)

	Hungary - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Third, the Alliance of Free Democrats and the Federation of Young Democrats also believed that the agreement was inadequate because it did not call for the dissolution of the Workers' Guard, the HSWP's private army.
		Finally, the Alliance of Free Democrats and the Federation of Young Democrats underscored the dangers of electing a communist president in a fledgling democracy.
		In return for the Hungarian Democratic Forum's support for Goncz, the Alliance of Free Democrats agreed to support a series of amendments to the Constitution that were to secure the establishment of "an independent democratic constitutional state" in Hungary and provide the legal basis for a market economy.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-5747.html (9057 words)

	General elections in Hungary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ), a liberal party belonging to the government coalition since the general elections on 7th and 21st April 2002; traditionally believed as the Social Party's "natural" ally.
		Finally the Alliance of Young Democrats-Civic Union suggests the reduction of the number of ministers to six or seven in comparison with the present sixteen.
		The Alliance of Young Democrats-Civic Union were ahead of the Socialist Party for a long time but although this gap lay at 15 points in December last the difference between the two parties is now only three points.
	www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/hongrie/legislatives/default.htm (1759 words)

	Alliance of Free Democrats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Alliance of Free Democrats - the Hungarian Liberal Party (Hungarian: Szabad-Demokraták szövetsége - a Magyar Liberális Párt, abbreviation SZDSZ) is a liberal party in Hungary, led by Gábor Kuncze.
		At the 2006 elections, it gained with 6.5% of the list votes 20 representatives out of 386 in the Parliament (this was the first time that it raised its support) and 20 of the 386 seats.
		SZDSZ provided the first freely elected President of the Third Hungarian Republic, Árpád Göncz, and the Mayor of Budapest, Gábor Demszky, in office since 1990.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alliance_of_Free_Democrats (342 words)

	National Alliance of Gang Investigators' Associations
		The first free parliamentary election, held in May 1990, was a plebiscite of sorts on the communist past.
		The Federation of Young Democrats (renamed Fidesz-Hungarian Civic Party (MPP) in 1995) captured a plurality of parliamentary seats and forged a coalition with the Smallholders and the Democratic Forum.
		Free copies of this information are available by calling the Bureau of Consular Affairs at 202-647-5225 or via the fax-on-demand system: 202-647-3000.
	www.nagia.org /international/Hungary.htm (4887 words)

	Hungarian Elections 2006: February 2006
		Of the two small parties--namely, the liberal Free Democrats and the conservative Hungarian Democratic Forum--the former has the best chance of reaching the 5% threshold of parliamentary representation in the national elections to be held April 9, 2006.
		When the governing coalition of Socialists and Free Democrats were unable to nominate and support a single candidate (and with most Free Democrats unwilling to vote for the Socialist candidate) the junior coalition partner abstained from voting, thus giving the opposition the extra votes needed to elect its own candidate.
		The young democratic activist and adversary of the Communist regime became something of a national figure following a speech he gave on July 16, 1989, during the rehabilitation and reburial of Imre Nagy, Hungary’s prime minister during the 1956 revolution, who was later executed for his role in the uprising.
	kanadaimagyar.com /2006_02_01_archive.html (4161 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Hungary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Democratic politics resurfaced in Hungary in 1989 following the ouster of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party after four decades of one-party rule.
		These tensions resulted in a boycott of the legislature by the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSzP) in February 2002 after the Prime Minister had labeled MSzP opposition to the law as "treasonous." However, legislative elections in April 2002 were narrowly won by the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSzP), though the party failed to win an outright majority.
		The MSzP subsequently entered into a formal coalition with the Alliance of Free Democrats (SzDSz) in May 2002; Fidesz and MDF announced they would form separate floor groups in the legislature.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Hun1.htm (390 words)

	No. 90-42 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the final round of free and competitive elections held on 8 April 1990, the Hungarian voters flatly rejected the communist party -- despite its recent reforms and change of name.
		The regime reluctantly agreed and the vote was held on 26 November 1990 with a turnout of 58 percent.
		His father was a democratic leader who opposed both the Nazis and the communists in the 1940s and who has been honored by Israel and Poland for having helped thousands of refugees, including many of the Jewish faith, to escape from the Nazis.
	www.security-policy.org /papers/1990/90-42.html (1333 words)

	CNN.com - Socialists set for Hungary victory - April 21, 2002
		The Socialists, led by Peter Medgyessy, and its ally, the Alliance of Free Democrats, won 198 of parliament's 386 seats compared to 188 to Orban's Fidesz-Hungarian Civic Party.
		The Alliance of Free Democrats, a small liberal party aligned with the Socialists, won four seats and withdrew most of its candidates from Sunday's run-offs in the Socialists' favour.
		Orban has established a sound economy, taken Hungary into the NATO military alliance, and is determined to complete his nation's drive to join the European Union, probably by 2004.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/04/21/hungary.election/index.html (478 words)

	Central Europe Review - Falling Down: The decline of liberalism in CEE
		In 1990, the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ), a liberal party established mainly by former anti-Communist dissidents, and the Alliance of Young Democrats (FIDESZ), a party of non-conformist and anti-Communist university students, won 21.3 and 8.9 per cent, respectively.
		True, the FIDESZ, once an ally of the Free Democrats, turned out to be the real winner of the elections, expanding its share of the vote from seven to 29 per cent, but, in fact, the FIDESZ had moved substantially away from its old image of a liberal party.
		During their coalition with the MSZP, the Free Democrats began to be perceived as an unimportant arm of the Socialists, as a second, merely a bit more centrist, version of this party.
	www.ce-review.org /00/31/lang31.html (2374 words)

	Alliance of Free Democrats attack church financing in election campaign kick-off - The Budapest Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Alliance of Free Democrats attack church financing in election campaign kick-off
		Whilst the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) and the opposition Fidesz fight it out, the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) has started its election campaign with a statement against the state’s financing of churches.
		At a press conference, SZDSZ spokesman Péter Gusztos, said the “feudal privileges” of the churches must be abolished and the treaty with the Vatican reconsidered in this area.
	www.budapesttimes.hu /index.php?art=1276 (293 words)

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		The main party of opposition was the Alliance of Free Democrats, which could claim strong anti-communist credentials on account of the dissident past of many of its leading figures, but which chose to align itself more and more closely with the other main opposition party: the ex-Communist Socialist Party.
		That agreement involved the Free Democrats supporting the government in its proposal to get rid of a constitutional provision by which a two-thirds majority in parliament had to be obtained for the passing of many new laws, with the exception of the law on the media.
		In return for their support for this constitutional change, the Free Democrats managed to obtain from the government two important concessions: that their man became president of the Republic and that the directors of the state TV and radio stations be appointed by the president on a proposal from the prime minister.
	www.bhhrg.org /Print.asp?ReportID=9&CountryID=12 (3515 words)

	Liberalism in Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Since 1945 only one liberal party has been significant in politics at the national level: The Free Democratic Party (Freie Demokratische Partei, member LI), ELDR.
		From Liberal Democratic Party of Germany to Alliance of Free Democrats (GDR)
		The same month it joined the newly founded Free Democratic Party (GDR) (Freie Demokratische Partei (DDR)) and the German Forum Party (Deutsche Forumpartei) into Association of Free Democrats (Bund Freier Demokraten).
	www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Liberalism_in_Germany (838 words)

	CNN.com - Hungary vote too close to call - April 7, 2002
		Prime Minister Viktor Orban's conservative Fidesz alliance was running neck-and-neck with the Socialists, election officials said, with more than 41 percent of the vote.
		In third place, garnering more than 6 percent of the vote, was the Hungarian Free Democrats' Alliance -- a former coalition partner to the Socialists in the government, which ruled from 1994-98.
		The liberal Democrats' Alliance was poised to gain entry into the new parliament since only 5 percent of the vote is needed to secure representation.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/04/07/hungary.election (343 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Hungary Appoints New Prime Minister
		Medgyessy fired the economy minister of the Socialists' liberal coalition partner, the Alliance of Free Democrats, as part of a government reshuffle.
		The firing angered not only the Free Democrats, but Prime Minister Medgyessy's own party as well, which dumped him within hours of the announcement.
		The 43-year-old prime minister, who became rich buying state assets during the early years of Hungary's privatization, is widely seen as representing a philosophical break from the old-guard politicians of the Communist era, embracing both a liberal business outlook and support for social justice.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/4-8-26/23004.html (442 words)

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		This poster from the Autumn of 1989 is part of a series of dramatic posters by the Alliance of Free Democrats (see the May 1st poster in this same case) that use strong graphic elements to produce an unsettling feeling about the symbols of the old order.
		The "Workers Guard" to which it refers was the communist party's armed militia, composed disproportionately of older workers who met at their places of work for drills (or, more frequently in the latter days of the regime, simply meetings or idle chatter) while continuing to draw their wages.
		As they campaigned to abolish the Workers Guard in the referendum of November 1989, the Free Democrats remind the public that the danger of an authoritarian backlash would not be removed until the party's repressive apparatus was fully disarmed.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/sipa/U8150/shatter/12.html (142 words)

	Hungarian Elections 2006
		Of the two small parties--namely, the liberal Free Democrats and the conservative Hungarian Democratic Forum--the former has the best chance of reaching the 5% threshold of parliamentary representation in the national elections to be held April 9, 2006.
		When the governing coalition of Socialists and Free Democrats were unable to nominate and support a single candidate (and with most Free Democrats unwilling to vote for the Socialist candidate) the junior coalition partner abstained from voting, thus giving the opposition the extra votes needed to elect its own candidate.
		The young democratic activist and adversary of the Communist regime became something of a national figure following a speech he gave on July 16, 1989, during the rehabilitation and reburial of Imre Nagy, Hungary’s prime minister during the 1956 revolution, who was later executed for his role in the uprising.
	www.kanadaimagyar.com /hungary2006/index.html (5366 words)

	Apollo Alliance : Democrats' Moon Shot
		With all the major candidates on board, now is the time for the Democratic Party to build this powerful but ultimately partisan alliance into a broad platform for a new Democratic majority.
		The Alliance proposal calls for federal subsidies of $300 billion over 10 years, but $200 billion of that is for industry (the remaining $100 billion is for infrastructure investments to back up metropolitan regional smart growth plans, where 84 percent of the population lives).
		The Democrats have until the convention in July to move Apollo to the center of a new integrated economic and national security strategy.
	www.apolloalliance.org /apollo_in_the_news/archived_news_articles/2004/democratsmoonshot.cfm (1249 words)

	Hungary's Fidesz fails to win ally - Boston.com
		Hungary's main right-wing party Fidesz failed to forge an alliance with a smaller party on Wednesday, a major blow to its hopes of overturning the ruling Socialists' success in the first round of a two-stage election.
		Orban promised defiantly to fight on alone, but the rebuff by his rival rightists left the Socialist/Alliance of Free Democrats coalition looking likely to become the only government to win two consecutive terms since communism ended in 1989.
		To the right he is a patriotic hero but his opponents criticize his forthright language, peppered with references to the Socialists' communist past, as out of tune in a country that is now a member of the European Union.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/04/12/hungarys_fidesz_fails_to_win_ally (629 words)

	ELDR Party - Annemie Neyts congratulates Hungarian Free Democrats
		Annemie Neyts, President of the European Liberal Democrats, congratulates Gabor Kuncze, leader of the liberal Free Democrats (SZDSZ) for his party’s success in the second round of the Hungarian parliamentarian elections, which leads to the continuation of the ruling coalition of socialists and liberals.
		With this renewed mandate, the Free Democrats will seek to convince their coalition partners to introduce the necessary reforms to boost the economy and reduce Hungary’s budget deficit,” Annemie Neyts stated.
		The Socialists and the Alliance of Free Democrats increased their majority from 198 to 210 seats in the 386-member chamber on 23 April in the second round of the Hungarian general election.
	www.eldr.org /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=766 (268 words)

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