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Apr. 09, 1990: World Notes:Hungary
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Apr. 09, 1990 America's Changing Colors
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 59
World Notes
HUNGARY
A Goulash Victory
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<p> Hungarians waited 45 years for the free elections they
finally enjoyed last week. Then they had to wait another 48
hours for the results to be funneled through an archaic
telephone network and a malfunctioning computer system. When
the bulk of the 7.5 million ballots were finally counted, the
Hungarian Socialist Party, formerly the Communists, had won
less than 11% of the vote, only enough to give it a peripheral
</p>
<p> The allocation of 386 parliamentary seats will be determined
after runoff elections scheduled for April 8. But the
first-round results made clear the country's overwhelming
preference for two center-right parties, the Hungarian
Democratic Forum (25% of the vote) and the Alliance of Free
Democrats (21%). Since neither of the front runners is likely
to win an outright majority in the next round, talks to stitch
together a governing coalition with the Independent
Smallholders' Party and other parties quickly got under way.
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