What does a country do when the recently-reelected Prime Minister is taped saying that he deliberately lied, exagerating the prevailing economic conditions in order to get the vote.
This is disgraceful behaviour and there needs to be a new election forthwith.
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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Ferenc Gyurcsany, Hungary’s prime minister, has resisted calls to step down and vowed to restore public order after an anti-government demonstration on Monday night degenerated into a riot in which 125 people, mostly police, were injured.
The protest – the worst incidence of public unrest in Hungary since the collapse of Communism in 1989 – was triggered by an audio recording, leaked to the press on Sunday (read excerpts), in which Mr Gyurcsany admitted that his Socialist government had lied repeatedly to voters about state finances.
Following the re-election of his party in April, Mr Gyurcsany introduced a budget austerity programme in June and launched plans for public sector reforms.
The worst violence occurred in the early hours of Tuesday when hundreds of demonstrators stormed the headquarters of Hungary’ public television demanding to read a statement on the air.
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