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| | The Courier-Mail: Solyom elected Hungary president [ 08jun05 ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Solyom received 185 votes against 182 for parliamentary speaker Katalin Szili, the candidate of the ruling Socialist party, in a third round of voting. |
 | | Solyom, a former president of the constitution court who is not a member of any party, took the oath of office immediately after the vote in a formal ceremony in parliament. |
 | | Their junior coalition partner, the liberal Free Democrats, stayed away from the vote because they considered Szili too much of a "party politician" to be president. |
| www.thecouriermail.news.com.au /printpage/0,5942,15547508,00.html (291 words) |
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