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	Hungary: The controversy over the heritage of the 1956 Revolution
		Fidesz has made its own claim to the heritage of 1956, which it seeks to depict as an anti-communist and nationalist movement.
		Fidesz represents an ideological concoction that combines anti-communism, nationalism and the glorification of private property with social demagogy that demonizes the European Union and international capital.
		Fidesz was able to register clear gains in regional elections held October 1, winning a majority in eighteen of Hungary’s nineteen regions.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2006/oct2006/hung-o28.shtml (1713 words)

	Fidesz â“ Hungarian Civic Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fidesz â“ Hungarian Civic Union (in Hungarian : Fidesz â“ Magyar PolgÃ¡ri SzÃ¶vetsÃ©g) is a large conservative centre-right political party in Hungary ; as of 2004 the most important one in the opposition.
		Fidesz was founded by young democrats, mainly students, who were persecuted by the communist party and had to meet in small, clandestine groups.
		Fidesz gained power in 1998 under leader and Prime Minister Viktor OrbÃ¡n, who governed Hungary in coalition with the smaller Hungarian Democratic Forum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hungarian_Citizens'_Party (344 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		The alliance led by Fidesz came in first in the western region and several southeastern counties; HSP won in northern Hungary and Budapest.
		It proved fatal to Fidesz to underestimate the significance of Budapest, since HSP finally gained its marginal advantage not by the votes in the countryside but by virtue of its overwhelming victory in the capital: the left won in 28 out of 32 Budapest constituencies.
		Fidesz's more moderate leaders won over the conservatives in the center, while the other end of the coalition could safely count on the votes of the less-educated people in smaller communities, most of whom were losers of the transition and could be attracted to radical rhetoric.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol11num3/focus/bozoki.html (4951 words)

	Hungarian Demonstrators Demand Premier's Resignation \| Europe \| Deutsche Welle \| 19.09.2006
		The conservative opposition Fidesz party of former prime minister Viktor Orban said Monday it would seek to force Gyurcsany out of office as he has become a "persona non grata" in Hungarian politics.
		Fidesz late Monday expressed its complete solidarity with the demonstrators, who included militant nationalists and known football hooligans.
		The Hir TV commercial television channel, which is close to Fidesz, broadcast the Budapest demonstration live.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,2144,2178101,00.html (873 words)

	Organization of the Hungarian State and Hungarian Political Parties
		Fidesz received 26 mandates in the 1990 elections, and 20 mandates in the 1994 elections.
		Fidesz is in the parliament as a member of the opposition.
		Fidesz is a right wing, centralist party, and is the largest in the parliament, but does not form a majority.
	www.geocities.com /cserhatif/politics.html (1127 words)

	ARCHIVES - NGO News Issue 21 - AFTER THE REVOLUTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fidesz and its conservative coalition partner, the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF), were narrowly defeated in parliamentary voting by the post-communist Hungarian Socialist Party (MSzP) and the liberal Alliance of Free Democrats (SzDSZ).
		Fidesz struggled to maintain its integrity as many of its members were continuously harassed, sometimes beaten, and routinely oppressed both by the ruling communists and the stronger parties of the democratic opposition.
		Fidesz is further using extra-parliamentary pressure by urging its supporters to form thousands of local citizen circles that can be mobilized on command.
	www.freedomhouse.hu /news/archives/issue_21_08.html (2302 words)

	Central Europe Review - Fidesz Wants Autonomy for Vojvodina
		At the League of Young Democrats' (Fidesz) party congress held on 8 and 9 May, controversy was stirred by a speech made by the Vice President, Laszlo Kover.
		The Fidesz Vice President began by condemning the opposition for its cynical exploitation of the understandable fears felt by ordinary Hungarians in conjunction with the Kosovo crisis.
		Fidesz would welcome it if the West were not merely to make do with bringing the conflict to an end, but if it were to make full use of the opportunity available to come up with a comprehensive plan for the reorganisation of the region.
	www.ce-review.org /authorarchives/csardas_archive/csardas34old.html (1851 words)

	1Thesis6
		Fidesz gained a name for itself quickly after its inception in 1988 with its age limit of 35 (presumably in order to keep out any established member of the communist party and to quickly establish its image as modern, young, and with an eye to the future).
		Orbán's transformation of Fidesz is now complete, and as if to solidify support of the right, he made public statements tinged with populist flavor and which normally come from the far-right of the political spectrum.
		Fidesz sees itself as the new right, a catch-all group willing to absorb other right-leaning parties regardless of their political values on issues.
	www.indiana.edu /~iuihsl/1thesis6.htm (5099 words)

	Andor, Hungary elections 1998
		During the Fidesz campaign, he was the most prominent to argue for the promise of the party to reach and maintain seven percent annual economic growth.
		Fidesz responded to the crash by nominating Attila Chikán as minister for the economy and László Urbán as minister of finance.
		The college headed by Chikán was one of the cradles of Fidesz in the 1980s, and much of his students--László Urbán one of them--became prominent members or supporters of Fidesz.
	labourfocus.gn.apc.org /AndorLF60.html (5467 words)

	REUTERS - Hungarian Election - 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fidesz, in combination with centre-right coalition partner, the Democratic Forum (MDF), polled 41.11 percent of the first round vote, narrowly defeated by the opposition Socialists.
		Founded by Budapest students in 1988 as a radical liberal party, and seen for years as the Free Democrats' Alliance (SZDSZ) youth wing, Fidesz won 22 seats in Hungary's 386-seat Parliament in the first post-communist free elections in April 1990.
		The PR-slick and media-savvy Fidesz is seeking to be Hungary's first post-communist government to be re-elected.
	reuterscgi.vnet.hu /parties/fidesz.php (246 words)

	fidesz » » the issue of the destroyed telephone transcripts: recent developments in the brokergate scandal
		fidesz » » the issue of the destroyed telephone transcripts: recent developments in the brokergate scandal
		No coalition politician appeared before the committee and the government made all efforts to smear opposition politicians with the affair.
		It is also a fact that all members of the former Orbán-government appeared before the committee, as Fidesz has nothing to hide in the Brokergate Scandal.
	www.fidesz.hu /index.php?CikkID=38939 (1190 words)

	Fidesz’s growing need to regain the initiative before 2006 - The Budapest Times
		Fidesz reacted to the signs of crisis in the same manner as the MSZP: it blamed its communication policy for the problems.
		However the tensions between the two Fidesz leaders run much deeper than this; in 2003 Orbán changed the status of the county-level party organisation established by Áder into an election district instead, meaning that the leaders would be appointed by Orbán.
		Fidesz tried to turn this disadvantageous situation to their favour by pointing out that if Orbán steps down as party chairman this hardly means failure but rather that he would rather take on Gyurcsány in the next election race as a prime ministerial candidate and not as party chairman.
	www.budapesttimes.hu /index.php?art=414 (782 words)

	United Press International: Analysis: Red sun rising in Hungary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fidesz's open contempt of intellectuals, liberals, the media, and city-dwellers has often translated into withheld or truncated budgets and bureaucratic obstructionism.
		Zoltan Pokorni, Fidesz's president, said the rural vote would be crucial in the second round.
		Fidesz has been denigrated as merely enjoying the long-delayed fruits of painful reforms the Socialists have instituted -- for which the latter paid dearly in the last elections in 1998.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=09042002-041103-4718r (673 words)

	Hungary Around the Clock
		Fidesz spokesman Mariusz Revesz said it had been made clear that the prime minister wanted only to campaign, while Viktor Orban arrived with the intention of co-operation and with proposals.
		Fidesz deputy chairman Zoltan Pokorni told reporters on Saturday that the prime minister should sleep on the three proposals and not reject Orban's proposals out of hand.
		Fidesz House defence committee deputy chairman Istvan Simicsko said in response that the cabinet has been unable to decide whether to build a radar station for three years.
	www.hatc.hu /sample_category.php?cid=1 (1913 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Hungarian leader concedes defeat
		But since Fidesz has no coalition partners in the new parliament, this is not enough to form a majority government.
		Fidesz had adopted the unusual strategy of calling its supporters on to the streets in a show of strength.
		In the first round, Fidesz won 87 of the 386 parliamentary seats, while the Socialists won 94 and the Liberals won four.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/1941918.stm (456 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		F1) Collective misconception in the assessment of voting attitudes in favour of Fidesz A decisive factor contributing to the faulty assessment of the results of elections was that both public opinion pollsters and Fidesz, on the side of parties, held mistaken assumptions with respect to the voters’ attitude to Fidesz.
		Fidesz interpreted them as testifying to the success of the activist compaign they had been pursuing that far and that they managed to convince voters of the correctness and usefulness of their policy, and that the otherwise confrontative messages had a role to play in this.
		It were them, that is, who presumably preferred to support MSZP instead of Fidesz in consideration of their preliminary views concerning the time of the dispute as well as the eventual outcome of the dispute, once they decided to go to the election.
	www.wargo.hu /kutatasok/download/prp03e_3.doc (10975 words)

	Hungarian Elections: No rosy picture
		This, however, did not save the leading figures of any party that could not muster 5% of votes as that is the threshold for representation and which was only reached by two parties and a coalition of another two parties, thus making four in all.
		Fidesz formed a coalition pact with MDF, both roughly equating to a conservative right-of-centre party, representing the beneficiaries of privatisation, upper middle class, entrepreneurial class.
		The major voter base for the MSZP was in the towns and an analysis of the vote betrays a clear class delineation of the vote in the capital, Budapest.
	www.marxist.com /Europe/hungarian_elections2002.html (1840 words)

	Hungary's ruling party courting extreme right-wing faction / Goal is to isolate Socialist opponents in 2002 election
		With an election scheduled for 2002, many observers believe that the Fidesz is seeking to turn Hungary's multiparty parliamentary democracy into a two- party system by consolidating the entire right wing of the political spectrum.
		Recent scandals involving the Fidesz's current coalition partner, the Smallholders, have led many to think that the party will try to absorb the membership of the Hungarian Truth and Life Party (MIEP), an ultranationalist, anti-Semitic movement whose percentage of voter support, while still small, is showing signs of moving into the double digits.
		Hungarian newspapers have quoted Fidesz president Laszlo Kover as saying there are many similarities between his party's beliefs and those of the MIEP, and the two parties acknowledge that they have held talks with each other.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/05/05/MN165268.DTL&type=printable (982 words)

	World Jewish Congress Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Former Prime Minister Orban's pandering to Hungarian nationalist sentiment was seen as an ominous development in the European Union, committed as it is to stability on the continent.
		FIDESZ had been whipping up unrest among the Hungarian ethnic minorities in Romania, Slovakia and to a lesser extent in Yugoslavia and Ukraine.
		The new prime minister, Peter Medgyessy, a 59-year old banker, served as finance minister in the Socialist-led coalition government of the mid-1990s which was swept from power, mainly because of the badly needed but very painful economic reforms that liberalized the economy.
	www.wjc.org.il /publications/dispatches/dispatch89.cfm (1698 words)

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		The Federation of Young Democrats (FIDESZ) was established by a network of university students and young professionals that crystallised in the second half of the 1980s.
		Thus, in early 1993 FIDESZ started to expose some less secular and hardly cosmopolitan views on religious and "national" issues, voted against a routine adjustment of state pensions to the increase in nominal wages, and implicitly called for a boycott of the elections of union representatives to the social security council.
		Third, as FIDESZ climbed down, and the MSZP up in the polls, rejecting any coalition with the MSZP acquired an originally unintended connotation at a time when the prospect of having MDF in any government was rejected by large sections of the FIDESZ constituency.
	www.uic.ssu.samara.ru /osi/Toka2.html (4742 words)

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		FIDESZ was founded in 1988 by a group of students in the Law Faculty.
		Several of the party's representatives in parliament are in their early twenties, and the party has quickly earned a reputation for being well-prepared in parliamentary debates.
		As some of its leadership moved out of their late twenties, FIDESZ was forced to reconsider its organizational regulation of excluding members over thirty years of age.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/sipa/U8150/shatter/4.html (101 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: Forward Spin -- Apr. 08, 2002
		Conceived and funded, from government coffers, by the ruling right-wing Fidesz party, the museum opened just before this month's general elections in which Fidesz's main rival, the Hungarian Socialist Party, is being painted as the successor to the cold war communist regime.
		For Fidesz and its combative young Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, 38, the vote holds an even more tantalizing promise: his would be the first government to be re-elected in Eastern Europe since the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall.
		Fidesz is rabidly anticommunist, stronger in rural areas and made up largely of men and women under age 40.
	time.com /time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901020408-221095,00.html (1128 words)

	Welcome to YEPP.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fidesz is so popular because it has done a lot to support families, pensioners and young people.
		YEPP-News: Fidesz itself is quite a young party, with most leaders still being in their thirties and forties.
		Fidesz has turned into a civic party: the alliance of Hungarian christian-democrats has been integrated in the party, the Hungarian Democratic Forum and the Civic Alliance of Smallholders became coalition partners, etc. There is a lot of space for Fidelitas to take own initiatives.
	www.yepp.org /interviews/Edina.html (1673 words)

	World Science Forum, Budapest
		In October 1988, at the first Fidesz conference, he was elected as a member of the national chairmanship, a function he held until October 1989.
		In May 1993 he was elected as president of Fidesz, and was confirmed in that office at party conferences held in July 1994 and April 1995.
		Under the direction of Orbán, Fidesz was transformed from a radical student movement into a moderate, conservative and patriotic people´s party.
	www.sciforum.hu /index.php?image=i&content=p_orban (1232 words)

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		Although FIDESZ, also known as the Alliance of Young Democrats, which shared the same party list with the Hungarian Democractic Forum (MDF), won the largest number of seats—189 — the Socialists and their partners from the Alliance of Free Democrats (SCSZ) will form the biggest bloc in Parliament.
		By comparison, the alliance between FIDESZ and the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) was short-lived.
		FIDESZ lost the election as much as the Socialists won it.
	www.worldpress.org /article_model.cfm?article_id=666&dont=yes (808 words)

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		Fidesz needed a candidate who could not only guarantee the MDF’s support, but who would also be acceptable to the SZDSZ.
		Although Fidesz is fairly skilled at drafting laws that pass legal scrutiny—its founding members, almost without exception, are former law students—the party nevertheless is apt to pass laws that push through sometimes doubtful political agendas.
		The MSZP, like Fidesz, tends to draft politicised legislation—but it is less accomplished at framing laws in a way that pass muster in the courts.
	www.viewswire.com /index.asp?layout=display_article&doc_id=1739144359 (1179 words)

	IPI - International Press Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Fidesz Hungarian Civic Alliance, the largest opposition party, walked out of the plenary session before the ballot because it rejected a proposal to limit the vote to the two nominees of each of the two parties in government.
		While the Fidesz supporters’ claim could be seen as the pot calling the kettle fl, the fact remains that relations between the state media and the government are unhealthy.
		Mendreczky’s past involvement with the ruling Fidesz party raised fears that the appointment was an attempt by the government to buttress its control over the state broadcaster.
	www.freemedia.at /wpfr/Europe/hungary.htm (7657 words)

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