Hungary's Gyurcsany Wants Vote of Confidence

World | October 3, 2006, Tuesday // 00:00
Hungary: Hungary's Gyurcsany Wants Vote of Confidence Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany may become the first Hungarian premier to face a confidence vote since communism fell 16 years ago. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)

Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, whose Socialist Party was defeated in the local elections on Monday, asked parliament to hold a vote of confidence against him and his program on October 6. "We need this to enable us to carry on with our policies,'' Gyurcsany said in Budapest, as cited by the Bloomberg agency. "I hear those who say that we shouldn't give up our program that we have to keep governing. I'm telling them that we won't give up." Days of massive protests and the election defeat were not convincing enough for the prime minister to step down.

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