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RFE/RL NEWSLINE 22 November 1999
SLOVAK POLL SUGGESTS MECIAR'S PARTY MOST POPULAR. Former
Premier Vladimir Meciar's opposition Movement for a
Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) remains the most popular party in
Slovakia according to a recent poll, CTK reported on 21
November. Some 26 percent of those polled said they support
the HZDS, while only 12.4 percent said they back the ruling
Slovak Democratic Coalition. The new party Direction,
recently formed by independent parliament deputy Robert Fico,
came third with 12 percent support. The Hungarian Coalition
Party was backed by 8.8 percent and the Democratic Left Party
7.5 percent. Slovak President Rudolf Schuster was the most
trusted politician, with 31.8 percent support. Meciar came
second with 20.1 percent backing. PB
HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT SATISFIED WITH ECONOMY'S PERFORMANCE
THIS YEAR. The Hungarian cabinet said after a meeting on 20
November in Szentendre that the economy's performance this
year has met expectations, MTI reported. Government spokesman
Gabor Borokai said that the average wage increase was
somewhat higher than expected and will be 16.2 percent higher
on average. But he said inflation, projected to reach 11
percent this year, will be only 10 percent. Last year's
inflation rate was 14 percent. Borokai said GDP growth will
be 4 percent; it was projected to be 4-5 percent. PB
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE 23 November 1999
HUNGARIAN SURVEILLANCE REPORT TO BE KEPT SECRET. Denes
Kosztolanyi, chairman of the parliamentary committee
investigating the alleged illegal data collection on FIDESZ
politicians under the previous government, said the
committee's report will be kept secret until 2013.
Kosztolanyi, a member of FIDESZ, said on 22 November that the
document might contain state and service secrets. The daily
"Magyar Hirlap" reported that neither the name of Prime
Minister Viktor Orban nor that of other FIDESZ leaders who
were allegedly under surveillance appears in the draft
report. In related news, data protection ombudsman Laszlo
Majtenyi said that TV reporter Laszlo Juszt did not breach
state secrets by publishing documents related to the
surveillance affair. Juszt's lawyer has appealed to the
prosecutor-general to have the criminal proceedings against
his client halted. MSZ
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