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The Hungarian Democratic Forum
expresses the idealism how
we intended to do things.
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The Hungarian Democratic Forum may
have been intended for others
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originally, but I think that we,
who are still here for
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the Hungarian Democratic Forum,
were meant it to be a party of the centre
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and not as a complementary,
collaborating movement. As a result
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of the roundtable negotiations,
often questioned
and misunderstood by many,
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we insisted that we
carry out at least
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project of Hungary's state form
and the fundamental laws
(at least which were deemed acceptable of those).
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This includes the form of
the republic that operates today
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- imagine if another republican form
of state, a system of the republic
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formed along other lines
had been established
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either in the direction of
a presidential republic
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or in the direction
of a semi-presidential republic,
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had we not relied on the
provisions of the 3rd Act of 1848
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on a ministerial system
and article one of
the Act of 1946 on the
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republican form of state,
which is in perfect unison
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with the functioning of European
parliamentary republics and
constitutional monarchies.
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Finally, to talk about the pact - to be heard by
our friends who sat in our ranks -
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we did not make a pact.
I would like to say this,
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neither in 1989 did we
make a negative pact at the
National Round Table negotiations,
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just as we did not conclude
a negative pact with the
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SZDSZ at the end of April.
What we have done both times is that
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we have laid the legal foundations
for the Hungarian transformation,
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the legal foundations that we have
been able to achieve in the given
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situations, in the given moments.
These questions will once again be
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discussed in order to keep as few
lies in people's minds as possible.
